Colonial Despatches

The calypsoCalypso was a sixth-rate Royal Navy ship commanded by Captain Frederick Byng Montresor in the Pacific Station.1 It was built at Chatham Dockyard, had 20 guns, and was 37 m long by 11 m wide.2

This 1858 despatch requests that the calypsoCalypso be employed in the military response to the murder of 42 miners, at the hands of, apparently, Indigenous men, at Fraser River. And, in another correspondence in the same year, the calypsoCalypso is ordered to Vancouver Island to re-provision the satelliteSatellite and plumperPlumper.

• 1. Peter Davis, HMS Calypso, William Loney RN—Ships.
• 2. J. J. Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy (Devon: David & Charles: Newton Abbot, 1969), 1:102.