HMS Messenger (1830)


HMS Messenger was a wooden paddle ship, built in 1824 by Benjamin Wallis at Blackwall as Duke of York, and renamed Messenger when purchased by the Royal Navy on 20 August 1830 for £12,481. Initially she was rated as a paddle packet. In 1831, she was re-engined and lengthened by at a cost of £12,560. At around this time she was re-rated as a sloop. She passed Gibraltar in 1830, according to Earl of Beaconsfield's letters en route to Cadiz, Spain. It was reported Benjamin Disraeli was on the boat. She was fitted as a coal depot from May–December 1840, and sold to Henry Castle & Son to be broken up on 22 November 1861.
Her sister ship, George IV, was also purchased by the Royal Navy for a total cost of £24,977 9s. 4d., and renamed Hermes.

Propulsion

The paddle wheels were in diameter and wide. After her lengthening, she was re-engined with 2 engines of 100 nominal horse power each. Her cylinders were in diameter, with a stroke. She obtained a speed of on trials with of fuel loaded. Fuel consumption was about of coal per hour at an average speed of. Her fuel capacity was of coal, and with this load her displacement was.

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