Zebra, 1815
Type: Sloop ; Armament 16
Launched : 1815 ; Disposal date or year : 2 Dec 1840
Disposal Details : Wrecked off Mt. Carmel, Levant ; Com. Robt. Fanshawe Stopford
Notes:

Trincomalee 20 Mar 1816 Reported to have arrived Madras from Calcutta.

Simon's Bay 21 Aug 1816 Remained.

Simon's Bay 27 Sep 1816 Remains.

25 Oct 1825 Corfu, Lord Cochrane is daily expected here to intercept the Turkish supplies and reinforcements which are daily expected at Tripolitza (sic), and thus save what is left to the righteous cause of the Greeks. Sorry am I to say that Ibrahim Pacha has nearly overrun the Morea, and destroyed the villages and cattle. Missolonghi still holds out nobly, but it is not secure. The Greeks have offered to place themselves under our protection, on the same terms as the Ionian Islands are placed. The Cambrian, Capt Hamilton, has been to Modon, to effect an exchange between the son of the Bey of Maina, who was taken by Ibrahim at Navarin, and the Pacha of Napoli, who was taken by the Greeks. The Sybille, Capt Pechell, is cruising on the coast of Morea after pirates ; the Naiad, Hon Capt Spencer, is in the Archipelago ; the Rose has been employed these 2 months surveying the coast of Morea, principally in the Bay of Kolokythia ; the Medina is off Cerigo, her second master, Mr W Eshelby (of Portsea), is appointed Acting Master of the Rose ; Zebra, at Zante ; Chanticleer on the Ionian Station ; Weazle at Malta.Hampshire Telegraph - Monday 21 November 1825.

6 Jan 1827 Employed in the Mediterranean.

Malta 12 May 1827 Employed protecting British trade in the Archipelago, at Alexandria, and around the coasts of Syria and Caramania.

1827 the diplomatic and political situation which led the Battle of Navarin.

2 Oct 1827 Dartmouth reported that a strong division of the Turkish fleet had weighed from Navarin and were standing towards Patras. The Asia, Talbot, and Zebra weighed and joined the Dartmouth, sailing in pursuit of the Turkish squadron.

Malta 29 Dec 1827 Remains at Valetta.

31 Jan 1828 with a squadron at Grabusa under Commodore Sir T. Staines, destroyed a number of vessels which had been used for piracy. See p. 261-2 at at www.archive.org/details/royalnavyhistory06clow

Valletta 4 Jun 1828 Is in the Archipelago.

Valletta 30 Nov 1828 departed for England.

Gibraltar 17 Dec 1828 Passed without making contact in view of the fever present in the colony.

Portsmouth 26 Dec 1828 arrived from Malta after 3 years on the Mediterranean station, with the crew of the late Jasper.

Rio Janeiro 31 Jul 1829 Had refitted and departed for the Cape of Good Hope.

Jul 1830 East Indies Station.

13 Jan 1831 arrived Madras from Penang.

18 Jan 1831 departed from Madras on a cruise.

6 Dec 1831 arrived Sydney from NZ.

14 May 1832 at Keppel's Island and received reports from Wallis Island regarding difficulties the ship Oldham was experiencing at the Island, and departed without delay.

20 May 1832 arrived outside the reef of Wallis Island, but due to the difficulty in finding a gap in the reef it was not until the 23 May that it was decided to send the pinnace and cutter to the Oldham, who returned later that evening, a private of marines, Thomas Williams, having been killed by the natives on board the Oldham when there was an exchange of hostilities.

24 May 1832 with the assistance of the chief mate of merchant vessel, the Zebra was piloted through the reef into the lagoon, when it was observed that the Oldham had been set on fire, which it was not possible to extinguish.

26 May 1832 communication was made with the natives, the native chief visiting the Zebra, with a party of his men and the only survivor of the crew of the Oldham, a young man named Craven Nicholson, and the following day the visit was returned and 2 parties were landed from the ship, the second to complete the Zebra's water, and also, since they were armed, to provide some protection for Captain Macmurdo and his party, visiting the native chief. At the end of the day the Oldham sank at her moorings.

The following day the stolen stores and equipment from the Oldham were eventually returned to the Zebra, supplies of water completed, and a small supply of pigs and chicken etc. purchased by barter, prior to sailing. It would appear that the master of the Oldham was grossly abusing his position and following on from an earlier visitation from a very unwelcome visitor, also attempted to mistreat, violate, and abuse the natives on the island, who having had to kill the earlier visitor and his cohorts felt that their only remedy for the master and crew of the Oldham, was to repeat the process : see p. 376 of the Nautical Magazine for 1833, available in Google Books.

Aug 1832 at Penang.

5 Nov 1832 arrived Trincomalee from Madras.

15 Jan 1833 arrived Cape of Good Hope from Ceylon.

Feb 1833 arrived St Helena from the Cape and departed for Ascension and England.

20 Apr 1833 arrived Plymouth from Ceylon (27 Nov) and Cape (8 Feb).

11 Apr 1833 arrived Downs from the East India station and departed the 20th for Chatham to be paid off.

3 May 1833 Paid off at Chatham into ordinary.

Portsmouth 20 Jul 1833 To be brought forward for commission.

27 Nov 1834 arrived The Cape, bound for the East Indies, from Plymouth.

12 Mar 1835 departed for Trincomalee to refit

Sydney, NSW 28 Nov 1835 arrived from Madras.

4 Mar 1836 was reported to be at Hobart.

2-9 Aug 1836 passage down : variable winds and weather.

20 Aug 1836 Garden Island bearing ENE, 66 miles, a westerly gale required the vessel to haul off a lee shore and batten down.

23 Aug 1836 Cape Naturaliste bearing ENE, sailing close reefed, was suddenly thrown on beams end, and it was necessary to throw 2 stern guns overboard.

25 Aug 1836, 6.30 am, off Cape Leeuwin when struck by a violent squall, lee waste and guns under water, so 2 of foremost guns thrown overboard to relieve situation. At 08.00 am the wind and sea threatened the ship and 6 more guns were thrown overboard to preserve the ship. By 05.00 pm was able to wear, and at 6 set a close reefed main-topsail, and fore-staysail.

28 Aug 1836 re-opened the hatchways.

30 Aug 1836 inside the Casuarina Shoal and in the absence of buoys and beacons in Cockburn Sound anchored under the Casuarina, and signalled by gun for a pilot, with the sea abating was able to run into Cockburn Sound the following day.

Calcutta 8 Mar 1837 arrived from Trincomalee.

Apr 1837 5 May 1839 Malta, is to be placed at the disposal of the Duke of Devonshire, who will shortly sail for Naples.

15 May 1839 at Malta.

20 Jun 1839 arrived Valetta.

1 Jul 1839 Malta the Minden, Talavera, Asia, Castor, and Zebra departed and remained in the offing until the following day, when they were joined by Admiral Sir R Stopford, in the Princess Charlotte, the Rodney, Bellerophon, Pembroke, Tyne and Rhadamanthus and departed for the east, but destination unknown.

15 Sep 1839 arrived Alexandria.

6 Oct 1839 had arrived Beshika Bay from Alexandria, with a fresh (the fourth or fifth) refusal of his Highness the Pasha to deliver up the Ottoman fleet.

4 Nov 1839 Malta is reported to have departed Besika Bay 23 Oct for a winter anchorage at Vourla.

Zebra 31 Jan 1840 6 Jan 1840 Malta it is reported that The Zebra steamer arrived from Suez at Bombay on the 234 November, with the London mail of the 14th October, which thus reached Bombay in 40 days,

16 Dec 1839 Vourla, The Daphne and Zebra departed for Athens and Malta.

4 Mar 1840 Malta, is expected to sail, following the returne of the Hydra from Vourls, to relieve the Jaseur.

14 Mar 1840 Commander James Stopford, appointed from Hydra to the Zebra.

5 April 1840 Malta, whilst en route for Corfu, went ashore on Cape Blanco, and knocked off a part of her false keel.

25 May 1840 at Malta.

28 Jun 1840 departed from Malta for Corfu.

19 Jul 1840 Princess Charlotte, accompanied by the Benbow, Daphne, and Zebra, departed for the coast of Syria.

6 Sep 1840 Alexandria, departed with Admiral Stopford's squadron.

9 Sep 1840 arrived Beyrout, the Ganges, Bellerophon, Thunderer, Hastings, Zebra, Castor, Wasp, Phoenix, and Cyclops.

26 Sep 1840 unsuccessful operations at Ruad and Tortosa - see p. 315 at at www.archive.org/details/royalnavyhistory06clow See also www.gazettes-online.co.uk of 17 Nov 1840.

22 Oct 1840 in the vicinity of Scanderoon, off the coast of Syria.

Aug - Nov 1840 Capture of Acre and operations on the coast of Syria. Turkish Medals awarded to the Officers and Men employed during the Campaign. 16 Oct 1844 those onboard between 9 Sep - 10 Oct 1840, and at the bombardment of St. Jean D�Acre, on the 3 Nov 1840, will be paid their respective proportions of the grant voted by Parliament for the said services.

2 Dec 1840, was driven on shore a heavy gale in the bay of Khaifa with the loss of 3 of her ship's company, according to newspaper reports - but see p. 322-> www.archive.org/details/royalnavyhistory06clow

24 Apr 1841 Malta, a court-martial, on board the Howe, of the officers of the brig Zebra for the loss of tha vessel in December last, on the coast of Syria, resultrf in an acquittal, and the officers and ship's company being complemented on their seamanlike and intrepid conduct on the trying occasion