Syren / Siren, 1841
Type: Brig-sloop ; Armament 16
Launched : 23 Apr 1841 ; Disposal date or year : 1868
BM: 549 tons
Notes:

27 Feb 1841 building in Woolwich dockyard.

23 Apr 1841 Woolwich, launched at 2.30 pm.

12 Aug 1841 Woolwich, has been commissioned this week, and the following officers appointed to her:- Commander William Smith (b), Gunner John Compton, Boatswain Charles Grant, and Carpenter William Croad,.

14 Aug 1841 Commander William Smith (b) ; Lieutenant Thomas Hodgkinson ; Master Frederick. J. Gruzelier ; Purser John Brickwood ; Surgeon William Roy, appointed to the Syren.

21 Aug 1841 Lieutenants H. G. Morris and E. B. Nott, Vice Hodgkinson, appointed to the Syren ;

3 Sep 1841 Woolwich, is nearly completed. Lieutenant Thomas Sibbald has been appointed to her, vice Morris, to the Harlequin at Chatham. Mr. James Laird has been appointed surgeon to the Syren.

4 Sep 1841 reported to be preparing for service on the Coast of Africa.

2 Oct 1841 Master Julius Dor appointed to the Syren.

2 Oct 1841 is fitting out at Woolwich.

15 Oct 1841 Master Frederick J. Gruzelier has been re-appointed to the Syren, vice Dor, who is very ill in the Marine Hospital at Woolwich.

15 Oct 1841 Mate S. H. Rickets and Assistant-Surgeon John Cockin, have been appointed to the Syren.

15 Oct 1841 Lieutenant Sibbald, of the Siren, has been appointed to the Illustrious.

19 Oct 1841 was taken out of the basin at Woolwich, in anticipation of her shortly expected departure for Chinese waters.

29 Oct 1841 Woolwich, in harbour.

30 Oct 1841 Lieutenant H. Bernard appointed to the Syren.

30 Oct 1841 Woolwich, following an inspection by the Surveyor of the Navy, was towed out of the River by the Monkey, and departed for Plymouth.

3 Nov 1841 Plymouth, arrived from Woolwich.

10 Nov 1841 Plymouth, was paid advance wages and sails shortly for the South American station, and China.

13 Nov 1841 Master P. Loney, appointed to the Syren.

15 Nov 1841 Plymouth, departed for South America and China.

20 Nov 1841 Mates Octavius Cumberland and Walter G. Everest, appointed to Syren.

11 Dec 1841 Mate H. V. Craven appointed to the Syren.

22 Jan 1842 at the Cape of Good Hope.

4 May 1842 arrived Calcutta, en route for China.

24 Sep 1842 arrived Madras with the new Governor the Marquis and Marchioness of Tweddale and suite.

Late ? 1846 the ship's boats, under Lieut. Lyons, captured four piratical craft, with sixty men, near the Turkish island of Stanchio - see p. 361 at at www.archive.org/details/royalnavyhistory06clow

26 May 1847 detained the slave vessel Tito, which was sent for adjudication to the Vice-Admiralty Court at Sierra Leone, and sentenced to be condemned. 8 May 1849 the proceeds arising due for payment.

17 Jan 1848 detained and destroyed the Brazilian slave vessel San Jos�, which was subsequently condemned.

2 Apr 1848 detained in 3� 37' S. 10� 42' E. and destroyed the Brazilian slave brigantine San Francisco Boa F� / S Francisco da Boa F�, 74 tons, masters A F Nunes ; and lately Jos� Bernardes, owned by J B Forges, which was sent to the Vice-Admiralty Court, at St.Helena, and condemned.

3 Apr 1848 detained the slave vessel Princeza Dona Isabel, with 275 slaves on board, which was sent for adjudication to the Vice-Admiralty Court at St. Helena, and sentenced to be condemned. 25 Jan 1850 the proceeds arising now payable.

Jun-Jul 1848 Off the Slave Coast (Sierra Leone). See the vessel Amphitrite for article from the Morning Chronicle, for 11 Sep 1848.

5 Aug 1848 the Penelope, with the Siren and Bittern in company, detained the Brazilian slave vessel Polka.

15 Dec 1848 paid off at Sheerness.

13 Jun 1850 Tonnage bounties on San Jose and San Francisco Boa F� now payable

2 Sep 1850 Tonnage bounty and proceeds of vessel and stores of Polka now payable.

5 Aug 1857 the British Ambassador at Rio de Janeiro received information that a slave schooner was said to be landing her human cargo to the south of Santos, and that she will make first for the Island of Monte Abrigo, or the Islands of Remedios, which was passed on to the Flag Officer on the SE America station, who instructed the Syren, who was already on a cruise, to keep a look-out for the vessel. The info was also passed on to the Brazilian authorities who sent the Recife down from Rio. The search was called off after a week or so without seeing anything suspicious.

24 Oct 1858 departed Rio de Janeiro for the Falkland Isles, and has been instructed to look out for the Brazilian ship Santo, supposedly fitted out for the slave trade, and is therefore to call at Maldonado en route to ascertain if they have any news of the vessel, which was supposed to have departed Rio with horses for Calcutta.

Circa May 1859 at Para.

11 Jun 1859 was expected at Bahia.

12 Jul 1859 the mail ship Avon spoke with the Syren between Bahia and Rio, en route for Rio.

30 Aug 1859 at Montevideo

27 Oct 1859 Mr. Thornton, British Minister, arrived at Montevideo in the Leopard, in company with the Buzzard, Oberon, and Syren.

16 Nov 1859 the Flag Officer writes to the Secretary to the Secretary of the Admiralty regarding the swift apprehension of a 2 white men and 3 Africans who landed from a small launch to the north of Rio, and that the Siren will be directed to keep a look out for the possible trafficking of slaves amongst the coastal trade of Brazil on her next voyage via Bahia and Pernambuco.

8 Jan 1860 at Rio.

11 Apr 1860 paid off ?

1860 Portsmouth

1870 Used for Gunnery Purposes, Portsmouth