HMS Pandora (1833)

{{short description|Brig of the Royal Navy}}

{{Other ships|HMS Pandora}}

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{{Infobox ship begin}} {{Infobox ship image | Ship image=File:Thomas Hornbrook - H.M.S. Pandora - 1916-12 - Auckland Art Gallery.jpg | Ship caption=Pandora in 1861, painted by Thomas Lyde Hornbrook }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United Kingdom | Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|naval}} | Ship name=HMS Pandora | Ship namesake= | Ship ordered=11 December 1831 | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Woolwich Dockyard | Ship original cost=£7,821 | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down=August 1832 | Ship launched=5 July 1833 | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed= | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned=1 June 1836 | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified=Converted to survey ship 1845. | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship fate=Sold January 1862 | Ship notes= | Ship badge= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class={{sclass|Pandora|brig}} |Ship tons burthen=318 {{frac|68|94}} tons bm |Ship length=*{{convert|90|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} (overall) {{convert|71|ft|3|in|m|1|abbr=on}} (keel) |Ship beam={{convert|29|ft|3|in|m|1|abbr=on}} |Ship draught= |Ship hold depth={{convert|13|ft|10|in|m|abbr=on}} |Ship propulsion=Sails |Ship speed= |Ship sail plan= |Ship complement=50 (later 60) |Ship armament=*2 × 32-pounder carronades 1 × 32-pounder gun |Ship notes= }}

HMS Pandora was a 3-gun brig of the Royal Navy, in service from 1833 to 1862.

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Between 1845 and 1848 Pandora, under the command of James Wood, was used as a tender to {{HMS|Herald|1824|6}}.{{cite book | first1 = A. L. |last1=Rice | date = 1986 | title = British Oceanographic Vessels, 1800-1950 | publisher = Ray Society. | pages = 114–115| isbn = 978-0-903874-19-9 }} During this time she was involved in survey work on the west Coast of the Americas from Colombia to Vancouver Island.{{cite book |last1=Dawson |first1=Llewellyn Styles |title=Memoirs of hydrography, including brief biographies of the principal officers who have served in H.M. Naval Surveying Service between the years 1750 and 1885. Part 2. - 1830-1885 |date=1885 |publisher=Henry W. Keay |location=Eastbourne |chapter=Commander James Wood, R.N. |page=57 |url=https://archive.org/details/memoirshydrogra00dawsgoog}}

From 20 December 1850 to 5 June 1856{{cite web |url=http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=1849 |title=Pandora Byron Drury R.N. |last=Davis |first=Paul |website=www.pdavis.nl |access-date=2019-02-13 }} her captain was Commander Byron Drury,{{cite web |url=http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=895 |title=Byron Drury R.N. |last=Davis |first=Paul |website=www.pdavis.nl |access-date=2019-02-13 }} under whose command she spent four and a half years surveying the New Zealand coast.{{cite web |url=http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowObit.php?id=895 |title=Obituary: Admiral Byron Drury |author=The Times newspaper |date=9 November 1888 |via=www.pdavis.nl |access-date=2019-02-13 }}

• Soundings made off the Cape of Good Hope at the Agulhas Bank in 1851.{{Citation needed|reason=No source given as at February 2019. |date=February 2019}}
• Took part in the survey work of New Zealand, between 1851 and 1855. This work, together with that of {{HMS|Acheron|1838|6}} between 1848 and 1851, led to the publication of the New Zealand Pilot.{{cite book |last1=Richards |first1=G.H. |last2=Evans |first2=F.J. |title=The New Zealand Pilot |date=1875 |publisher=Hydrographic Office, Admiralty |location=London |edition=Fourth |url=https://archive.org/details/thenewzealandpilot}} {{Explain|date=February 2019|reason=Provide more detail about what places were surveyed. Mention Pandora's 1853 survey and Drury's sailing directions for the Manukau harbour bar and their role in the 1863 wreck of HMS Orpheus. }}. On 8 February 1853, Pandora ran aground at Manukau whilst departing for Onehunga.{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=23 August 1853 |issue=24858 |page=8 }}
• In December 1854, surveyed Sumner Bay, including the bar and mouth of the Avon-Heathcote Estuary for the Canterbury Provincial Council. Drury wrote a report and produced a detailed chart of the area, with soundings.{{cite book |last=Amodeo |first=Colin |date=1998 |title=Rescue: The Sumner community and its lifeboat |location=Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand |publisher=Sumner Lifeboat Institution Incorporated |page=2 |isbn=0-473-05164-8 }}

Thomas Kerr her Master.{{When|date=February 2019}}{{Citation needed|reason=Kerr is not shown as one of Pandora's captains between 1836 and 1856 at web page http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=1849 |date=February 2019}}