Vulcan, 1835
Type: Revenue Steam Vessel ;
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Portsmouth 11 Jul 1835 following the recent launch of the 330 ton steam vessel Vulcan at Cowes she is to be brought here to be prepared for the revenue service. It is reported that she is fitted with 2 Maudsley engines of 60 h.p. and achieved 12� knots during her recent trials.

Plymouth 10 Sep 1835 arrived here Monday.

25 Mar 1837 Lieut. Wm. Crispin apptd. to the Steam Vessel Vulcan, in the Revenue service in the English Channel.

Nov 1841 W.H. Hood noted as being the Mate of the Vulcan in the New Navy List for this date. Portsmouth 15 Jul 1839 went out to the Nab Light to pick up the passengers and crew who had abandoned the Waterloo steam vessel, which sank having caught fire.

16 Oct 1840 Portsmouth, arrived from Weymouth with men for the fleet.

8 Feb 1841 Thursday even evening five men, whose names were Winzar, Vye, Charles, Harwell, and Woodrow, left Weymouth about 6 o'clock for Lulworth, in an open boat, in which they had come from the latter place in the morning with fish. It is said they were observed in their passage by the Vulcan, revenue steamer ; however, it appears they never reached Lulworth. The boat was found on the next day, Friday, near Durdle Door, about half a mile from Lulwortb, With her bottom bilged, and the oars in it, from which it is conjectured, a very dense fog prevailing on Thursday, that the boat must have struck on a rock, and the men, not being aware of its actual situation, but supposing it nearer the beach, jumped from it, and thus met a watery grave. The first-named four were married men, and, with the exception of Harwell, have left families to lament their untimely bereavement of husbands and fathers. Neither of the bodies have yet been found. Sherborne Journal.

13 Jan 1842 the collier Armenia, of Sunderland, in ballast, was caught by a SSE gale between Bembridge and Dunnose, and had to be run up the beach in Sandown Bay to save the crew. On Saturday the Vulcan went to her rescue, only to find that she was high and dry up the beach. It took until Tuesday before she could be hauled off the beach and towed round to Gosport, supported by empty kegs, and run up on the beach for her to be pumped out. No doubt they will get a bit of salvage money for their efforts ?

22 Jan 1842 more on the last item : it is reported that the collier Armenia was run ashore on the beach in Sandown Bay. The Vulcan, revenue steamer, went to her assistance some days later, but was initially unable to move the collier ; however after many attempts the vessel was pulled over 40 feet through shingle to get her into the water, before casks were fitted under the bilge and she was towed round to Portsmouth harbour and put on the beach at Gosport, having pumped the vessel all the way from Sandown.

5 Feb 1842, it has been reported that the Chief Mate of the Vulcan boarded the French fishing vessel Le Courrier, 15 tons, Jean Nicolson Le Gros, Master, from Cherbourg, in Weymouth harbour and discovered 60 gallons of French spirit hidden in small tanks below the ballast, the whole being conveyed to HM Customs.

7 Jun 1842 arrived Plymouth from a cruise.

1 Aug 1842 based at British Channel, Lt. Wm. Crispin, apptd. 25 Mar 1837.

3 Dec 1842 captured the French smuggling cutter Hortense off Exmouth, having got within a mile of the vessel before she realised her identity, by which time it was too late and a good part of her cargo remained on board, along with 8 of her crew, who would normally have attempted to take to the cutter's boats in order to avoid capture.

19 Jan 1847 assisted with the refloating of the Sphynx, ashore on the Isle of Wight.

24 Jan 1848 Lieutenant J. Pritchard appointed to the Vulcan, in command.

20 Dec 1848 Revenue Vessel.