Tyrian, 1826
Type: Packet / Brig sloop ; Armament 10
Launched : 1826 ; Disposal date or year : 1892
Notes:

14 Oct 1826 Dwyer, being fitted out at Plymouth as a Falmouth Packet.

14-21 Dec 1826 seems to be toing and froing between Plymouth and Falmouth.

For further movements of Falmouth Packets try page 3 of the Royal Cornwall Gazette, available through the British Newspaper Archive, for a fee.

Dec 1827 packet based on the Falmouth station : Commanding officer: Lt. Robert Dwyer.

27 Jan 1828 departed Plymouth for Falmouth.

3 Jul 1830 arrived Falmouth from Rio (6 May), Bahia (18 May), and Pernambuco (25 May), with specie.

9 Aug 1830 departed Falmouth for Halifax and Bermuda.

22 Nov 1830, departed Falmouth for St. Domingo, Lieut. Dwyer, in command.

24 Jan 1831 arrived at Honduras from Falmouth.

25 Apr 1831 arrived Falmouth from Tampico.

8 May 1831 departed Falmouth for Halifax and Bermuda.

5 Jun 1831 departed from Halifax for Bermuda.

8 Jun 1832 arrived Rio from Falmouth.

11 Jun 1832 departed Rio for Buenos Ayres.

7 Oct 1832 arrived in Plymouth Sound, from Falmouth, and went into harbour to be paid off on the 12th.

Circa 2 Feb 1835 is reported to have departed from Falmouth for St Thomas's with mail.

9 May 1835 arrived Falmouth with mails from the Leeward Islands, having departed from St. Thomas's on the 6th ult. The mail includes the Jamaica mail brought up by the Spitfire on 4th.

21 Mar 1836 departed Vera Cruz for Tampico.

11 Sep 1836 is reported to be in the Tagus and due to sail for Falmouth tomorrow with mail.

8 Oct 1840 Plymouth, arrived from Falmouth Tuesday with invalids and then returned to Falmouth.

23 Oct 1841 Lieutenant ------ Snell, late of the Kite, appointed to command the Tyrian packet.

17 Jun 1841 departed Falmouth for Jamaica.

28 Oct 1841 Plymouth, departed with the mails for Mexico.

13 Nov 1841 Lieutenant C. W. G. Griffin (1814), appointed to the Tyrian.

26 Feb 1842 arrived Falmouth from Vera Cruz, Tampico, and Havannah, with $170,000.

28 Feb 1842 departed Falmouth, for Plymouth, to be paid off.

1 Mar 1842, arrived Plymouth, from Falmouth, to be paid off.

3 Mar 1842 to be paid off next week.

6 Aug 1842 having recently been replaced by a Royal Mail Steamer and paid off the Admiralty has asked the authorities at Plymouth Dockyard how long it would take to refit and prepare the vessel for commission, with a view to the vessel being used to convey the West India Station mails.

20 Dec 1848 Quarantine vessel, Motherbank, opposite Spithead, off the Isle of Wight.

1860 Quarantine Service on the Motherbank ditto.

1870 Coast Guard service.

1879 Receiving Hulk, Portsmouth.

1879 Portsmouth.