HMS Dee (1832)

Her keel was laid in October 1829 at Woolwich Dockyard and launched on 5 April 1832. The gundeck was {{convert|166|ft|7|in|m|2|abbr=off}} in length with {{convert|146|ft|6|in|m|2|abbr=off}} reported for tonnage calculation. Her maximum breadth was {{convert|30|ft|4.5|in|m|2|abbr=off}} with {{convert|30|ft|0.5|in|m|2|abbr=off}} reported for tonnage calculation. Her depth of hold was {{convert|16|ft|4|in|m|2|abbr=off}}. Her draught both fore and aft was {{convert|11|ft|6|in|m|2|abbr=off}}. Her builder's measure for tonnage was 704 tons with a displacement of 907 tons.Winfield

Her machinery was supplied by Maudslay, Son and Field of Lambeth. She shipped two rectangular fire-tube boilers. The steam engine was a vertical single expansion (VSE) side lever engine with cylinders of {{convert|54|in|mm|2|abbr=off}} with a stroke of {{convert|60|in|mm|2|abbr=off}}, rated at 200 nominal horsepower (nhp).Brown DK, page 188Lyon Winfield, pages 149–150 The engines were connected to two {{convert|20|ft|m|2|abbr=off}} diameter paddle wheels. Steam was produced and delivered to the engines from tubular boilers at {{convert|3.5|psi|atm kPa}} above atmospheric pressure.Brown, page 51 The Science Museum, London has a model of Dee{{'}}s engine.[https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co39548/model-of-a-pair-of-side-lever-engines-from-the-h-m-s-dee-1832-model-representation-steam-engine-engine Model of a pair of side-lever engines from the H.M.S. 'Dee', (1832)] Science Museum Group. Retrieved 28 September 2019.Brown, page 51 When the paddle wheels turned 18 revolutions per minute, she had a maximum speed of {{convert|8|kn|lk=in}}.Brown, page 51 In 1856,Brown, Before the ironclad, page 51 says that Black Eagle was used to try Wethered's superheater in 1856; Brown does not mention that Dee was also used.
Busk, The navies of the world, page 152 makes it clear that the trials of superheaters on Dee and Black Eagle were about the same time. Dee and the yacht {{HMS|Black Eagle||2}} were used in a trial of J Wethered's apparatus for superheated steam. This produced an economy of fuel of 18% in Black Eagle, and 31% in Dee.Busk, page 152 In 1866, she was given a new 220 nominal horsepower engine.Lyon Winfield, pages 149–150

Her initial armament consisted of two 18-pounder 22 hundredweight (cwt) muzzle loading smooth bore (MLSB) guns on pivot mounts. Her armament was soon changed to six 32-pounder MLSB guns all on pivot mounts. The six guns were a combination of four 63 cwt and two 56 cwt guns. Late in her career the 56 cwt guns were replaced with a single 10-inch 86 cwt shell gun. In 1868 when converted to a storeship, her armament was removed.Winfield

HMS Dee initial commission was on 9 June 1832 under the command of Commander Robert Oliver, RN for service with the squadron blockading the Dutch coastWinfield from 9 June 1832 – 27 May 1834, when the steamers Dee and {{HMS|Rhadamanthus|1832|2}} were part of a Royal Navy force including three line-of-battle ships and ten other sailing ships that blockaded the Dutch ports in 1832. This was in support of the French Army, which had intervened in the Belgian Revolution in support of the Belgians against the Dutch, and intervened again to besiege the Dutch garrison of Antwerp.Brown DK, page 53 "The two steamers had been particularly useful in the narrow channels of the Dutch estuaries with their fast tidal currents."Brown DK, pages 53, 444 With the end of the Dutch blockade she was assigned to the Home Station under the command of Commander Edward Stanley, RN on 5 November 1833.Winfield On 29 May 1854 she was assigned to the North America and West Indies station under the command of Commander William Ramsay, RN.Winfield She returned to Home Waters, paying off in April 1837.Winfield

Her second commission started in February 1838 under the command of Commander Joseph Shearer, RN for service on south-east coast of America. She returned to Home Waters paying off in May 1841.Winfield

In December 1841 she was taken in hand at Sheerness for conversion to a troop transport. The first phase was completed in June 1842 at a cost of £6,939. She was recommissioned under the command of Thomas Driver, Master on 26 May 1842. She underwent the second phase at Woolwich from June to September 1842 at a cost of £5,461. In March 1846 the Dee was engaged bringing food supplies to Sligo as relief following the first failed harvest of the Great Irish Famine. On 18 May 1848 she was under the command of George Filmer, Master for service at the Cape of Good Hope Station. On 14 September 1852 she was under the command of Lieutenant George T.C. Smith, RN remaining at the Cape of Good Hope Station. She returned to Home Waters in mid-1854.Winfield

Between November and December 1854 she was converted to a storeship at Portsmouth at a cost of £860.

She was recommissioned on 23 November 1854 under the command of Thomas C. Pullen, Master. At the time of the 1861 Census, she was in Plymouth Sound, under Pullen's command, en-route between the Clyde and Chatham, carrying Marines and family members, one as young as 1 month. Ancestry.com. 1861 England Census, Enumeration District: Dee

She paid off in 1860. On 12 June 1863 she was commissioned under the command of George Raymond, Master as a storeship. On 14 October 1869, George Waters, Master took command at Woolwich.Winfield

She was paid off for the last time on 17 June 1871 at Sheerness. She was broken at Sheerness in October 1871.Winfield

{{reflist}}

• ADM 53/444, UK National Archives catalogue, ADM 53/444, Log of HMS Dee, 9 June 1832 – 27 May 1834
• Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy, by J.J. Colledge, revised and updated by Lt Cdr Ben Warlow and Steve Bush, published by Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley, Great Britain, © 2020, {{ISBN|978-1-5267-9328-7}} (EPUB), Section D (Dee)
• Brown, Paddle Warships, the earliest steam powered fighting ships, 1815-1850, by David K. Brown 1993, {{ISBN|0-85177-616-7}}
• Brown DK, Before the ironclad, by David K. Brown, published by Conway Maritime Press, 1990, {{ISBN|0-85177-532-2}}
• Busk, The Navies of the World by Hans Busk, published by Routledge, Warnes and Routledge, 1859
• Greenhill, Steam, Politics and Patronage, the transformation of the Royal Navy 1815-54, by Basil Greenhill and Ann Giffard, published by Conway Maritime Press, 1994, {{ISBN|0-85177-612-4}}
• Lyon Winfield, The Sail & Steam Navy List, All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815 to 1889, by David Lyon & Rif Winfield, published by Chatham Publishing, London © 2004, {{ISBN|1-86176-032-9}}, Part I, Chapter 3, Paddle Steamers (Wooden)
• Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail (1817 – 1863), by Rif Winfield, published by Seaforth Publishing, England © 2014, {{ISBN|978-1-4738-3743-0}} (e-book), Chapter 11 Steam Paddle Vessels, Vessels acquired from 1 January 1817, Dee

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