HMS Terror

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Terror, 1856
Type: Floating battery ; Armament 16
Launched : 28 Apr 1856 ; Disposal date or year : 1902
BM: 1971 tons ; Displacement: 1844 tons
Propulsion: Screw
Machinery notes: 200 hp
Notes:

Some brief notes on the Terror.

Iron-hulled armoured batteries

13 May 1857 Sheerness. Commissioned as Base ship, Bermuda

1864 Base ship, Bermuda. Report of dysentery and several reports of fever onboard : number of Cases of Disease and Injury.

1870 Bermuda

1 Jan 1877 Recommissioned Bermuda

1879 Bermuda. Late Screw - machinery removed

1879 Includes officers borne for Bermuda Yard ; for Viper and Vixen

1 Jan 1886 Re-commissioned Bermuda

Apr 1886 Bermuda

1890 Bermuda. Includes officers borne for various duties ashore.

1897 Receiving ship Bermuda

1901 Base ship Bermuda