HMS Charybdis
HMS Charybdis was a Pearl class corvette launched with 21 guns in 1859.1 The ship, captained by Algernon McLennan Lyons, served on the Pacific Station from 1868 to 1871.2 While under Lyons's command, the ship ran aground twice — once in 1869 and then again in 1870.3 Charybdis was given to the Canadian government for use as a merchant marine training ship in 1880 and sold in Halifax in 1884.4 Other Pearl class vessels named in the despatches include HMS Clio, HMS Satellite, HMS Scout, and HMS Scylla.5
  • 1. David Lyon and Rif Winfield, The Sail & Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815-1889 (London: Chatham Publishing, 2004), 209.
  • 2. The Navy List [June 1868] (London: John Murray, 1868), 188. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015025957674; The Navy List [June 1871] (London: John Murray, 1871), 138. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015025957708; Military and Naval Intelligence, Times (London), 25 July 1871, 5.
  • 3. Return of All Losses and Casualties to Her Majesty's Ships […], in Accounts and Papers [British Parliament, 1872, vol. 39], 26, 28. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044106495203
  • 4. Canada, Chicago Daily Tribune, 12 November 1880, 10; Ottawa, Chicago Daily Tribune, 7 May 1881, 8; Lyon and Winfield, The Sail & Steam Navy List, 209.
  • 5. Lyon and Winfield, The Sail & Steam Navy List, 209.
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