- HMS Cruizer (1852)
HMS "Cruizer" was a 17-gun wooden screw
sloop , the name-ship of the "Cruizer" class of theRoyal Navy , launched at theRoyal Dockyard ,Deptford in1852 . She was renamed HMS "Cruiser" in 1857.History
Her first years of service were spent on the
China station , during which a party of her crew took part in theBattle 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 theYangtse river , including the attack on theTaku Forts on thePeiho river in 1859.In 1860, under the command of
John Bythesea she surveyed theGulf of Pechili to prepare moorings for the Allied fleet to disembark troops for the advance onPeking .HMS "Cruiser" was laid up in England in 1867, before being recommissioned for the Mediterranean station.
Disposal
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.
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