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Fawn HMS

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Fawn HMS

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Rig

Cruizer-class Sloop

Built

1859

Built In

Deptford

Tonnage

751

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Description

HMS Fawn was a Royal Navy 17-gun Cruizer-classsloop launched in 1856. She served on the Australia, North America and Pacific stations before being converted to a survey ship in 1876. She was sold and broken up in 1884.

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Logs, August 1955 - June 1956; June 1957 - April 1959; March - September 1961; May - August 1963 and October 1964 (mainly explosives trade)

Location

Public Record Office, London
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Remark Book, 1860

Location

Royal Navy Hydrographic Department, England and Australian Joint Copying Project in due course
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Reference

Surgeon W Fasken's illustrated journal, 1862

Location

Australian Joint Copying Project Public Record Office M reel 710
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Reference

Thomas H Hood - Notes of a cruise in HMS "Fawn": in the western Pacific in 1862
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Reference

South Australian Maritime Museum, on authorisation from Catherine/Amy

Publisher

Michael Kelleher

Location

SAMM

Author

Michael Kelleher

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