HMS Pandora (1833)
HMS Pandora was a 3-gun brig of the Royal Navy, in service from 1833 to 1862.
Pandora in 1861, painted by Thomas Lyde Hornbrook | |
History | |
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Name: | HMS Pandora |
Ordered: | 11 December 1831 |
Builder: | Woolwich Dockyard |
Cost: | £7,821 |
Laid down: | August 1832 |
Launched: | 5 July 1833 |
Commissioned: | 1 June 1836 |
Reclassified: | Converted to survey ship 1845. |
Fate: | Sold January 1862 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Pandora-class brig |
Tons burthen: | 318 68⁄94 tons bm |
Length: |
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Beam: | 29 ft 3 in (8.9 m) |
Depth of hold: | 13 ft 10 in (4.22 m) |
Propulsion: | Sails |
Complement: | 50 (later 60) |
Armament: |
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From 20 December 1850 to 5 June 1856[1] her captain was Commander Byron Drury,[2] under whose command she spent four and a half years surveying the New Zealand coast.[3]
- Soundings made off the Cape of Good Hope at the Agulhas Bank in 1851.
- Took part in the survey work of New Zealand, between 1851 and 1855. This work, together with that of HMS Acheron between 1848 and 1851, led to the publication of the New Zealand Pilot.[4] . On 8 February 1853, Pandora ran aground at Manukau whilst departing for Onehunga.[5]
- In December 1854, surveyed Sumner Bay, including the bar and mouth of the Avon-Heathcote Estuary for the Canterbury Provincial Council. Drury wrote a report and produced a detailed chart of the area, with soundings.[6]
Thomas Kerr her Master.
Notes
- Davis, Paul. "Pandora Byron Drury R.N." www.pdavis.nl. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
- Davis, Paul. "Byron Drury R.N." www.pdavis.nl. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
- The Times newspaper (9 November 1888). "Obituary: Admiral Byron Drury". Retrieved 13 February 2019 – via www.pdavis.nl.
- Richards, G.H.; Evans, F.J. (1875). The New Zealand Pilot (Fourth ed.). London: Hydrographic Office, Admiralty.
- "Ship News". The Morning Post (24858). London. 23 August 1853. p. 8.
- Amodeo, Colin (1998). Rescue: The Sumner community and its lifeboat. Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand: Sumner Lifeboat Institution Incorporated. p. 2. ISBN 0 473 05164 8.
References
- Day, Jean D. The Search for Thomas Kerr, Mariner, Mapmaker, Missionary, Meteorologist, 1825 - 1875. Create Space, 2015.
- Lyon, David and Rif Winfield. The Sail and Steam Navy List: All of the Ships of the Royal Navy, 1815-1889. London: Chatham Publishing. 2004, p. 126.
External links
- Media related to HMS Pandora (ship, 1833) at Wikimedia Commons
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