HMS_Bloodhound_(1845)

HMS <i>Bloodhound</i> (1845)

HMS Bloodhound (1845)

Gunvessel of the Royal Navy

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Bloodhound.

HMS Bloodhound was an iron-hulled paddle gunvessel of the Royal Navy. She was built by Robert Napier and Sons at Govan, to a design drawn up by the builder. She was fitted as a tender to the paddle frigate Sampson at Portsmouth between 1849 and 1851,

Boodhound attended the Reduction of Lagos, in December 1851

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She was broken up in 1866.[2][1]

Notes

  1. [N 1]
    22 cwt is the weight of the gun ("cwt" = hundredweight)

References

  1. [1]
    Winfield (2004), p. 176
  2. [2]
    Colledge. Ships of the Royal Navy. p. 42.
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