Vengeance, 1824
Type: 2nd rate ; Armament 84
Launched : 27 Jul 1824 ; Disposal date or year : 1897
BM: 2284 tons
Notes:

1 Jan 1820 building or ordered to be built, with a circular stern.

4 Aug 1824 the revenue cruiser Wickham departed Plymouth for Milford with a party of riggers to bring round the Vengeance to Plymouth.

1830 Portsmouth

1 Oct 1840 Plymouth, departed Tuesday under jury rig for Portsmouth, to be brought forward for commission. The steamer accompanied her to render assistance if required.

3 Oct 1840 Spithead, arrived on Thursday from Plymouth, and went into harbour to be prepared for commission.

10 Oct 1840 Portsmouth, was taken into the basin an Thursday.

13 Oct 1840 Portsmouth, was taken into dock.

5 Dec 1840 Portsmouth, was taken out of dock.

16 Dec 1840 Portsmouth, is being rigged in the basin by personnel from the Victory.

11 Jun 1842 rumours abound that the guns of the Vengeance and Collingwood are being got ready on the gun wharf at Portsmouth.

10 Oct 1842 to be fitted as an "Advanced Ship," at Portsmouth, her masts, spars, and rigging, are to be prepared, fitted, ticketed, and housed in the Dockyard, and the ships are to have their bulk heads put up, their anchors, chain cables, and tanks on board, and their armament is to be kept ready in the Gun Wharf.

14 Sep 1847 exercises with Sir Charles Napier's Squadron - see steam sloop Stromboli for details.

Summer, 1848, Malta Harbour

20 Dec 1848 Mediterranean.

25 May 1851 Royal Inspection - see below

30 Aug 1851 Portsmouth

17 Oct 1854 1st Bombardment of Sebastopol - see p. 437 at www.archive.org/details/royalnavyhistory06clow

1860 Devonport

1861-62 Receiving Ship (temporary), per Parliamentary estimates etc.

1870 Receiving Hulk, Devonport

8 Feb 1871 William Tubbs, Second Mate of the Coastguard vessel Imogene, was court martialled on board the Royal Adelaide for being drunk on board the Vengeance hulk on 30 Jan. He pleased guilty, and taking into account his excellent character adjudged him to forfeit one year as a second mate and to be dismissed his ship.

1879 Receiving Hulk, Devonport

1890 Receiving Hulk, Devonport

DNS of 26 May 1851

Victoria and Albert : Portsmouth, May 25. At about 6 o'clock on Friday night the Victoria and Albert, royal yacht, which had gone down to Cowes during the day, hoisted the royal and Prussian standards and embarked her Majesty and her royal foreign guests and conveyed them to Spithead, on a visit to the Vengeance, 84, Captain Lord Edward Russell, and the Hogue and Ajax, 60 gun screw steam ships, Captains M'Dougall and Quin. The royal party, under the customary salutes and the ceremony of manning yards, went on board the two first named ships and inspected them after which they returned to the royal yacht etc���..