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HMS Merlin (1838)

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Description
Construction and career
Notes
References

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Ship ordered=10 March 1838

Ship builder= Pembroke Dockyard

Ship laid down=April 1838

Ship launched=18 September 1838

Ship commissioned=20 April 1839

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HMS Merlin was a 2-gun paddle packet boat, the name ship of her class, built for the Royal Navy during the 1830s. She was converted into a survey ship in 1854 and then into a gunvessel two years later.

Description

Merlin had a length at the gun deck of {{convert|175|ft|m|1}} and {{convert|153|ft|6|in|m|1}} at the keel. She had a beam of {{convert|33|ft|2|in|m|1}}, and a depth of hold of {{convert|16|ft|5|in|m|1}}. The ship's tonnage was 889 {{fraction|14|94}} tons burthen.^[1] The Merlin class was armed with a pair of 6-pounder carronades.^[2]

Construction and career

Merlin, the twelfth ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy,^[3] was ordered on 10 March 1838, laid down the following month at Pembroke Dockyard, Wales, and launched on 18 September 1838.^[2] She was completed in April 1839 and commissioned on 20 April.^[1]

Notes

1. ^¹Winfield, p. 1432
2. ^¹Winfield & Lyon, p. 167
3. ^Colledge, pp. 223–24

References

{{Colledge}}
{{cite book|last1=Phillips|first1=Lawrie; Lieutenant Commander|title=Pembroke Dockyard and the Old Navy: A Bicentennial History|date=2014|publisher=The History Press|location=Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK|isbn=978-0-7509-5214-9}}
{{cite book|last1=Winfield|first1=Rif|title=British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1793-1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates|date=2008|publisher=Seaforth|location=Barnsley, UK|isbn=1-84415-700-8|format=epub}}
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