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HMS Actaeon - World Naval Ships Directory

HMS Actaeon

Name : HMS Actaeon
Laid Down : September 1928
Launched : 31st January 1831
Completed : 16th April 1831
Type : 6th Rate
Class :
Builder : Portsmouth
Country : UK
Pennants :
Fate : Became survey vessel in 1856, then hulk in 1870. Sold February 1889.

Actaeon was designed in 1827 by the School of Naval Architecture, and launched from Portsmouth Dockyard on 31 January 1831. She was first commissioned in November 1830 under Captain Frederick William Grey for service in the Mediterranean, followed by service off South America from November 1834 under Captain Lord Edward Russell where she was involved in the chartering of the Acteon Group: a group of islands named by Russell after this vessel. By 1838 she was back in Portsmouth under the command of Robert Russell, who sailed her back to South America in August that year. Actaeon was back in Britain, this time at Plymouth in 1844, before departing for the African coast in December 1844 under Captain George Mansel. Whilst serving on this post, she captured the slavers Astrea and Theresa on 9 September 1847. She was paid off at Portsmouth in 1848, but was recommissioned again in 1857 to serve as a survey vessel off "the coast of China and Tartary", under the command of Captain William Thornton Bate. She was then present at the bombardment of Canton in 1857, during the Second Opium War, where Bate was shot and killed on 29 December. He was replaced by Robert Jenkins on 30 December, and then by John Ward on 1 March 1858. Ward carried out surveys for further military operations in August 1859, before returning to Britain. Actaeon was at Shanghai on the night of Sunday, 7 April 1861 for the British census. Actaeon Sound in the Queen Charlotte Strait region of British Columbia, Canada, was named for the Actaeon in 1865, with many neighbouring features named in association with its crew and captain in the general area of Drury Inlet. Actaeon was then out of commission at Portsmouth in 1866, becoming a hospital ship. She was hulked in 1870 and lent to the Cork Harbour Board, before being sold at Portsmouth in February 1889 for breaking up.

25 November 1830 - 4 September 1834 Commanded by Captain Frederick William Grey, Mediterranean 14 August 1838 - 1842 Commanded by Captain Robert Russell, South America (January 1843) Out of commission at Plymouth 14 December 1844 Commanded by Captain George Mansel, west coast of Africa 1 August 1856 - 29 December 1857 Commanded by Commander William Thornton Bate, Coast of China and Tartary (until he was killed while serving with the Naval Brigade on shore during bombardment of Canton during the second Anglo-Chinese war) 30 December 1857 - 24 September 1858 Commanded by Captain Robert Jenkins, coast of China and Tartary 24 September 1858 - 19 June 1862 Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Commander John Ward, coast of China and Tartary

Fr 20 June 1862 Extracts from the Times newspaper The Actaeon, surveying frigate, Capt. John Ward, was paid out of commission at Portsmouth yesterday, under the superintendence of Capt. H. Broadhead, commanding the steam reserve at the port, and the crew were granted the ordinary leave of absence. This ship was commissioned in August, 1858, for Commander W. Thornton Bate, then on surveying service in China. After the death of Capt. Bate at the bombardment of Canton the Actaeon was engaged in the survey of the Canton River until August, 1858, when Capt. Jenkins was succeeded in the command by Commander John Ward, and the ship sailed for the North and the Coast of Tartary (Manchooria), returning to Canton in the end of December of the same year. In February, l860, she sailed for the Gulf of Pecheli in company with Her Majesty's ships Sampson, Algerine, and Dove; surveyed Ta-lien-whan Bay and part of the gulf as a rendezvous for the combined fleets of England and France. She was afterwards engaged with the Dove tender, Cruizer, Algerine, Leven, and Slaney in completing the survey of the whole coast of the gulf of Pecheli and the north coast of Shantung. The Actaeon's next labours were in surveying the lower part of the Yangtze river, above Shanghae. In May, 1861, she sailed for Japan, and on arrival there continued surveying, assisted by the Dove, Algerine, and Leven, until December, when she returned to Hongkong, and finally sailed for England on the 9th of January, 1862.

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