cancelled in 1831. HMS Devastation (1841) was a paddle sloop launched in 1841 and broken up in 1866. HMS Devastation (1871) was a Devastation-class turret ship...
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HMS Devastation was a Royal Navy Driver class steam sloop, unusually powered as a paddle steamer designed by Sir William Symonds and launched in 1841...
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History of HMS Devastation (1841) History of HMS Alacrity (1856) The Navy List, July 1885, corrected to 20 June 1885, page 71. History of HMS Juno (1867)...
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HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765. With 246 years...
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following the 1873 commissioning of the mastless and more capable HMS Devastation, she was placed in reserve in 1875, and was "paid off" – decommissioned...
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HMS Terror was a specialised warship and a newly developed bomb vessel constructed for the Royal Navy in 1813. She participated in several battles of...
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Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 13.2. London: John Murray. pp. 653–654. "HMS Devastation". "British steam sloop 'Devastation' (1841)". Burke's Peerage; Levinge...
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The second voyage of HMS Beagle, from 27 December 1831 to 2 October 1836, was the second survey expedition of HMS Beagle, made under her newest commander...
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Swynfen Carnegie (category UK MPs 1841–1847)
1838 and given command of the sloop HMS Orestes on 10 August 1842. He transferred to the steam sloop HMS Devastation in November 1843 and served with her...
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August 1841 and then took command of the sloop Devastation in the Mediterranean Fleet in September 1841. He became acting captain of the first-rate HMS Queen...
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