HMS Cruizer (1852)
 HMS Cruiser
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| History | |
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| Name | HMS Cruiser |
| Builder | Royal Dockyard, Deptford |
| Launched | 1852-06-19 |
| Fate | sold out of service, Malta, 1912 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Sloop |
| Displacement | 960 tons (871 t) |
| Length | 160 ft (48.7 m) |
| Propulsion | list error: <br /> list (help) Sail Auxiliary horizontal-geared steam engine |
| Armament | 17 x 32-pdr guns (later removed) |
HMS Cruiser was a 17-gun wood screw sloop of the Royal Navy, launched at the Royal Dockyard, Deptford in 1852. Originally bearing the name HMS Cruizer, she was renamed Cruiser in 1857.
Her first years of service were spent on the China station where a party of her crew took part in the Battle of Fatsham Creek in 1857. Her commander, Charles Fellowes, was the first man over the walls of Canton when the city was taken, and the ship saw further action on the Yangtse river, including the attack on the Taku (Peiho) Forts in 1859.
In 1860, under the command of John Bythesea she surveyed the Gulf of Pechili to prepare moorings for the Allied fleet to disembark troops for the advance on Peking.
HMS Cruiser was laid up in England in 1867, before being recommissioned for the Mediterranean station.
In 1872, having had her guns and engine removed, she became a sail training ship and was renamed HMS Lark, in which capacity she served until at least 1903. She was finally sold for breaking up at Malta in 1912.
References
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.