HMS Desperate

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HMS Desperate was originally slated to be built to the Sampson designed steam vessel rated as a Steam Vessel First Class (SV1); however, the Admiralty, first rerated the vessels as First Class Sloops on 19 April 1845 then on the 9 May 1845, she was ordered as First-Class screw sloops to be built from a design of Sir William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy. She would be a 10-gun vessel with 400 NHP engines. She served in the Baltic during the Crimean War, and as a store ship to Edward Augustus Inglefield's Arctic expedition. She was broken up by 1865.

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1852-04-12T00:00:00Z
ship commissioning
1849-05-23T00:00:00Z
1849-05-23T00:00:00Z
ship launching
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