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PANTALOON
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Brig
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Built in 1831. Purchased.
Broken up in 1856. |
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- Designed by Capt. William SYMONDS (later Sir W. SYMONDS,Surveyor of the navy) as a yacht for the Duke of Portland but later purchased by the Admiralty.
- 1832 Tender to ROYAL GEORGE Yacht, Portsmouth.
- 1836 Falmouth.
- 1837 Plymouth, tender to ROYAL GEORGE.
- 1842 Lieut. Charles LAPIDGE, 11/1841, Coast of Africa.
- 1844 Portsmouth.
- 1845 Edmund WILSON, 09/1844, Coast of Africa.
After chasing a large slaver polacca for two days PANTALOON found her becalmed 2 miles off Lagos on 26 May 1845. Some 27 marines and seamen in three boats under Lieut. Lewis PREVOST with the master, John Thomas CROUT and the boatswain, Mr PASCOE, managed to board and capture her in spite of a heavy fire of round-shot, grape and canister from four 12-pounders to which they could only reply with musketry.
Two British seamen were killed and the master, boatswain and 5 others badly wounded in the desperate fighting on the deck. 7 of the slavers were killed and the same number wounded out of a crew of about 50.
PREVOST was promoted three months later. - 1848 Devonport.
- 1850 Hyde PARKER, 07/1849, Cape of Good Hope.
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