HMS Daphne, 1838-1864

HMS Daphne was a sixth rate, 18-gun sailing ship of the Royal Navy, and during its time in the Pacific it was commanded by Captain John James Onslow from 1842-47, and then by Captain Edward Gennys Fanshawe from 1848-52.1 It was a corvette-class vessel, 37 m long by 11 m wide, built at Pembroke Dock.2

The Daphne is mentioned in multiple despatches, mostly in 1851 and 1852.

1. Peter Davis, HMS Daphne (1838), The Victorian Royal Navy (website). http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=1318
2. J. J. Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy (Devon: David & Charles: Newton Abbot, 1969), 1:152.

Mentions of this vessel in the documents

Schedules
Fanshawe, Sir Edward Gennys
Blanshard, Governor Richard
Onslow, Captain John James
Lacy, Lieutenant Edward
The Colonial Despatches: Schedules
Schedules
Blanshard, Governor Richard to Grey, Third Earl Henry George 4 August 1851, CO 305:3, no. 8963, 28.
Blanshard, Governor Richard to Grey, Third Earl Henry George 11 August 1851, CO 305:3, no. 9337, 36.
Blanshard, Governor Richard to Grey, Third Earl Henry George 11 August 1851, CO 305:3, no. 9336, 34.
Blanshard, Governor Richard to Grey, Third Earl Henry George 30 August 1851, CO 305:3, no. 9339, 38.
Hamilton, George Alexander to Merivale, Herman 22 September 1851, CO 305:3, no. 8047, 195.
Parker, John to Hawes, Benjamin 24 October 1851, CO 305:3, no. 9092, 206A.
Douglas, Chief Factor Governor Vice-Admiral Sir James to Grey, Third Earl Henry George 31 October 1851, CO 305:3, no. 484, 65.
Grey, Third Earl Henry George to Douglas, Chief Factor Governor Vice-Admiral Sir James 5 November 1851, LAC RG7:G8C/1, 31.
Parker, John to Peel, Sir Frederick 28 November 1851, CO 305:3, no. 10075, 215.
Hamilton, George Alexander to Merivale, Herman 30 December 1851, CO 305:3, no. 10817, 241.
Parker, John to Merivale, Herman 28 January 1852, CO 305:3, no. 836, 245.
Pelly, Sir John Henry to Grey, Right Honorable Second Baronet Sir George 2 February 1852, CO 305:3, no. 1039, 428.
Trevelyan, Sir Charles Edward to Merivale, Herman 20 February 1852, CO 305:3, no. 1489, 353.
Douglas, Chief Factor Governor Vice-Admiral Sir James to Grey, Third Earl Henry George 15 April 1852, CO 305:3, no. 6485, 103.
Hamilton, George Alexander to Merivale, Herman 25 May 1852, CO 305:3, no. 4770, 254.
Hamilton, George Alexander to Merivale, Herman 27 September 1852, CO 305:3, no. 8866, 269.
Hamilton, George Alexander to Merivale, Herman 20 October 1852, CO 305:3, no. 9535, 356.
Douglas, Chief Factor Governor Vice-Admiral Sir James to Labouchere, Henry 24 February 1857, CO 305:8, no. 3887, 24.

Colonial Despatches

The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871

HMS Daphne, 1838-1864