HMS Niger

HMS Niger was originally slated to be built as a Sampson designed sloop; however, she was ordered as a First-Class sloop with screw propulsion on 20 February 1845 to be built at Woolwich Dockyard, along the design developed by Oliver Lang and with a hull like the Basilisk designed paddle sloops. Her armament and engine were to be like the Encounter Design building at Pembroke. A second vessel (Florentia) was ordered on 26 March 1846 but after her keel was laid at Pembroke Dockyard, her construction was suspended on 6 October 1846 then cancelled three years later, on 22 May 1849. Niger She conducted important propulsion trials, finally proving the superiority of screw propulsion and served in West Africa, the Crimea, China, the East Indies and Australia. She took part in the New Zealand wars in 1860 and was sold for breaking in 1869.

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(Recto) The English fleet off the entrance to the Dardanelles; (verso) the French and English fleets in Besika Bay, October 1853 RMG PZ0882-003

Trial of power between paddle wheel and screw in the English Channel, 20 June 1849.

Medal, campaign (AM 801034-4)

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Embarkation of the Body of the late Emperor Maximilian at Vera Cruz, Mexico

HMS Niger (1846)

Loss of HMS Tiger

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
link	page		The Victorian Royal Navy page@		Wikidata
commons	image		(Recto) The English fleet off the entrance to the Dardanelles; (verso) the French and English fleets in Besika Bay, October 1853 RMG PZ0882-003		Commons
commons	image		Trial of power between paddle wheel and screw in the English Channel, 20 June 1849.		Commons
commons	image		Medal, campaign (AM 801034-4)		Commons
commons	image		Medal, campaign (AM 801034-1)		Commons
commons	image		Medal, campaign (AM 801034-2)		Commons
commons	image		Medal, campaign (AM 801034-6)		Commons
commons	image		Medal, campaign (AM 801034-5)		Commons
commons	image		Embarkation of the Body of the late Emperor Maximilian at Vera Cruz, Mexico		Commons
commons	image		HMS Niger (1846)		Commons
commons	image		Loss of HMS Tiger		Commons