HMS Plumper

HMS Plumper was part of the 1847 programme, she was ordered on 25 April as a steam schooner from Woolwich Dockyard with the name Pincher. However, the reference Ships of the Royal Navy, by J.J. College, (c) 2020 there is no entry that associates this name to this build. The vessel was reordered on 12 August as an 8-gun sloop as designed by John Fincham, Master Shipwright at Portsmouth. Launched in 1848, she served three commissions, firstly on the West Indies and North American Station, then on the West Africa Station and finally in the Pacific Station. It was during her last commission as a survey ship that she left her most enduring legacy; in charting the west coast of British Columbia she left her name and those of her ship's company scattered across the charts of the region. She paid off for the last time in 1861 and was finally sold for breaking up in 1865.

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HMS Plumper (1848)

HMS Plumper sea serpent 1848

HMS Plumper (1848) at Port Harvey

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
link	page		The Victorian Royal Navy page@		Wikidata
commons	image		HMS Plumper (1848)		Commons
commons	image		HMS Plumper sea serpent 1848		Commons
commons	image		HMS Plumper (1848) at Port Harvey		Commons