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ACORN (16) Built in 1838, Devonport.
Hulk in 1861.

  • Built to the design of Sir William SYMONDS as a sister ship to PILOT.
  • Launched at Devonport 15 November 1838. She was first commissioned in January 1839 by John ADAMS with a crew of 71 officers and men, 24 boys and 20 marines, and on 21 March she sailed from Plymouth for the Cape of Good Hope Station as part of the anti-slavery operations.

  • She returned to Plymouth in April 1841 and sailed again two months later on 11 June for Rio de Janeiro.
    Among her numerous prizes the most celebrated was the capture of the slaver brig GABRIEL on 6 July 1841. She returned to Plymouth in September 1843 and was laid up out of commission in the Hamoaze (the stretch of the River Tamar past the Dockyard).

  • She was re-commissioned again 1856 by Cdr. A. W. HOOD for service on the China station where she took part in the capture of Canton in December 1857.
  • She was later used as a coal hulk and a hospital ship. She was sold at Yokohama in 1869.


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