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Teazer, 1846
Type: Gunvessel - Tender ; Armament 2
Launched : 25 Jun 1846 ; Disposal date or year : 1862
BM: 296 tons
Propulsion: Screw
Machinery notes: 40
Notes:

Jan, 1846, Teazer, 4, Sir W. Symonds, screw steamer, three-eighths built, at Chatham

20 Dec 1848 Steam gun vessel. Devonport.

Dec 1849, on the west coast of Africa, expedition against the black pirates in the river Seba - see p. 367 at www.archive.org/details/royalnavyhistory06clow

24 Apr 1851 Devonport. Tender to Penelope, arrived from Portsmouth Monday and left with her consort for the coast of Africa Tuesday evening.

30 Aug 1851 Coast of Africa

23 Dec 1851 at Lagos, operations recommenced against the usurping King Coçioco with a view to reinstating King Akitoye - see p. 368-> at www.archive.org/details/royalnavyhistory06clow

11 Mar 1853, operations on the Sierra Leone river against a chief who was suspected of kidnapping a European and complicity in the slave trade - see p. 394 at www.archive.org/details/royalnavyhistory06clow

30 Apr 1853 operations up the Pongos river and capture of Spanish slave brig Bettona and a schooner - see p. 394 at www.archive.org/details/royalnavyhistory06clow

12 Mar 1858 distribution tonnage bounty awarded for the captured Name Unknown, supposed Cuba or Zeldina, [per London Gazette of 11 Nov 1859].

1860 Woolwich