HMS Driver, 1840-1861
HMS Driver was a first class paddle sloop of the Royal Navy commanded by Commander Charles Richardson
Johnson in the Pacific Station.
According to
Parker, John to Merivale, Herman 4 March 1850, CO 305:2, no. 1843, 177, the Governor of Vancouver Island, Richard Blanshard, was first brought to Victoria
from Callao, Chile on board HMS
Driver in March, 1850.
Mentions of this vessel in the documents
- Johnson, Commander Charles Richardson
- Schedules
- Blanshard, Governor Richard
- The Colonial Despatches: Schedules
- Parker, John to Merivale, Herman 4 March 1850, CO 305:2, no. 1843, 177.
- Barclay, Doctor Archibaldus to Merivale, Herman 9 March 1850, CO 305:2, no. 1971,
325.
- Blanshard, Governor Richard to Grey, Third Earl Henry George 8 April 1850, CO 305:2,
no. 5505, 49.
- Hamilton, George Alexander to Hawes, Benjamin 6 September 1850, CO 305:2, no. 7416,
181.
- Trevelyan, Sir Charles Edward to Merivale, Herman 9 October 1850, CO 305:2, no. 8290,
253.
- Boys, Reverend Thomas to Cuffe, 3rd Earl of Desart John Otway O'Conner 11 October
1852, CO 305:3, no. 9263, 495.