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Wasp, 1850
Type: Sloop ; Armament 14
Launched : 28 May 1850 ;
Disposal date or year : 1869
BM: 973 tons
Propulsion: Screw
Machinery notes: 100
Notes:
20 Dec 1848 Steam gun vessel. Deptford building.
3 Jan 1851 Arrived at Sierra Leone
10 Feb 1851 Sighted at Ascencion Island.
Weekly Dispatch, 2 Mar 1851 The Wasp, screw steam-sloop, Commander Crozier, arrived at Sierra Leone on 3rd January. On the 10th ult., she carried away, close to the cross pieces, the piston-rod, which knocked out the bottom of the foremost cylinder. No accident occurred. Her distilling galley is reported to answer well, and to give 230 gallons of water a day. This water is excellent for all cooking and washing purposes, and although rather flat when drunk cold, is far preferable to the water which can be obtained on the coast, two or three places alone being excepted. The Wasp left Sierra Leone on 21st ult., for the Congo.
30 Aug 1851 Coast of Africa
11 Dec 1858 at Rio.
9 Jun 1860 sailed from Sheerness for the Downs, encountered a gale, and headed for Portsmouth, in the event, via Portland. Then sailed for Plymouth and from thence to the Cape, involving a man overboard, and a stop at Madeira, en route.
25 Aug 1860 on the rocks on a part of the coast midway between Simon's Bay and Table Bay, but was got off.
Aug-Sep 1860 at the Cape of Good Hope.
2 Oct 1860 sailed for Mauritius, and on the 21st arrived at Port Louis and docked in the Trou Fanfaron.
1 Dec 1860 sailed for the Seychelles, and from thence to the Mozambique Channel on an anti-slavery patrol, where the Wasp went aground, and a boat was sent off to Zanzibar to seek assistance, but subsequently refloated herself!
Circa 7 Mar 1861 sailed for the Comoro Islands, arriving on the 20th.
Circa 7 May 1861 sailed for Port Louis to be docked, and after a stay of some weeks departed for the Cape of Good Hope, St. Helena and Portsmouth, via Brighton, where the Wasp was paid-off and the ship's company turned over to the Chanticleer.
16 Nov 1863 Portsmouth. Commissioned.
1864 Cape of Good Hope and East Indies station. Medical report : fever, and diarrhea onboard : number of Cases of Disease and Injury.
18?? reclassed corvette