HMS Pelorus (1857)

HMS Pelorus (1857)

"See also HMS Pelorus (disambiguation)"

HMS "Pelorus" was a 2,330 ton displacement, 21 gun corvette launched February 5, 1857 from the Devonport dockyard. It was captained at first by Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, then by Henry Boys, and later William Henry Haswell.

In June 1860, as flagship of the Australian Squadron, it participated in the attack on Puketakauere pa during the First Taranaki War. Later that year, the crew landed at Kairau to support British troops under attack from Maoris and in January 1861 a gun crew from the ship helped defend the British redoubt at Huirangi against the Maoris [ [http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~ausnavy/Military%20Action.htm Naval Military Actions] ] .

The future admiral, Cyprian Bridge served on "Pelorus" in the East Indies as a midshipman.

It was decommissioned in 1868 and was broken up for scrap in 1869. [http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=123]

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