Talk:HMS Miranda (1851)

HMS Miranda
My ancestor was a stoker onboard the HMS Miranda and sailed on it to Australia where it became part of the Australian fleet. He left the ship in Sydney in 1882 so it could not have been decommissioned and scrapped in 1869 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.137.70.178 (talk) 22:42, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Screw Sloop HMS Miranda, Date Scrapped?
I agree, this ship could not have been scapped in 1869, I have read articles about it working in the South West Pacific, overseeing the Queensland labour trade in 1884 under Commander Dyke Acland, Deputy Commissioner for the Western Pacific. See section 3 of this document and references 13 and 14 for it's sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sama74 (talk • contribs) 13:13, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

I've looked into this further and now believe that HMS Miranda would have been scapped in 1887. It was reported in June 1886 the the ship would be recalled from the Australian station and dismantled. She left Aukland NZ for England via Cape Horn on the 10th of November, arriving in Plymouth on the 19th of February.

The Wrong HMS Miranda
I take it all back, this is a different HMS Miranda. I believe the confusion has come from the fact that this one was a screw sloop and worked the Australian station, as did this other HMS Miranda, which is the one I have been reading about and the one the other contributor's ancestor worked on. The story there fits with my references, leaving the Australian station in 1886. Sama74 (talk) 18:24, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

Sail plan
The single uncited sentence "The pictorial record shows Miranda with a full ship rig in 1862, which makes it likely that she carried this rig for her entire life." reads like OR - and presupposes that the 1862 image is accurate. Davidships (talk) 21:24, 22 December 2016 (UTC)