HMS Salamander was one of the initial steam powered vessels built for the Royal Navy. On 10 January 1831 the First Sea Lord gave orders that four paddle vessels be built to competitive designs. The vessels were to be powered by Maudslay, Son & Field steam engines, carry a schooner rig and mount one or two 10-inch shell guns. Initially classed simply as a steam vessel (SV), she was re-classed as a second-class steam sloop when that categorization was introduced on 31 May 1844. Designed by Joseph Seaton, the Master Shipwright of Sheerness, she was initially slated to be built in Portsmouth, and was changed to Sheerness Dockyard. She was launched and completed in 1832, took part in the Second Anglo-Burmese War and was broken up in 1883.
Paddle steamer HMS Salamander towing a frigate out of Corunna, Spain, by Joseph Schranz
Salamander in the harbour of Papeeti, taken from the hill at the back of the town
Sheerness Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the Sheerness peninsula, at the mouth of the River Medway in Kent. It was opened in the 1660s and closed in 1960.
View from Garrison Point Fort across the Gun Wharf and Boat Pond, Sheerness Dockyard, 1941.
The fifth-rate HMS Clyde (left) and a sheer hulk (right) off Sheerness Dockyard at the time of the Nore Mutiny, 1797.
Sir Bernard De Gomme's 1667 design for a new fort at Sheerness, surrounding the original (1665) dockyard. (North is to the left).
Dutch newsprint illustration showing the raiders raising the Dutch flag over the fort at Sheerness (left) and beyond it the dockyard in flames.
