HMS inconstantInconstant, 1836-1862
HMS inconstantInconstant was a fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, designed by Captain Hayes and launched
on June 19th, 1836.1
A transcribed 1849 enclosure in this document notes that the inconstantInconstant's captain at the time, John Shepherd, refused passage to disgruntled HBC employees,
who were dissatisfied about the absence of their Employer,
and wanted to, in the character of Distressed British subjects,
make for San Francisco.
- 1. Inconstant, 1836, Index of 19th Century Naval Vessels.
Mentions of this vessel in the documents
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The Colonial Despatches: Shepherd, Captain John
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Parker, John to Hawes, Benjamin 5 November 1849, CO 305:2, no. 9461, 141.
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Pelly, Sir John Henry to Grey, Right Honorable, Second Baronet, Sir George 28 February
1851, CO 305:3, no. 1800, 362.