An item reported that the British steam frigate HMS Donegal commanded by
W.H.W. Hewette passed on 11 March Sunda Strait coming from Cape of Good Hope,
South Africa ad bound for Hong Kong and Singapore.(1)
Note
1. She was a screw steam ship of the line 1st class of the
Conqueror-class and not a frigate as suggested in the newspaper. Launched at
the Devonport Dockyard, England on 23 September 1858, commissioned on 23 June
1859, finally decommissioned on 30 September 1870, renamed Vernon and hulled she
became a torpedo school ship on 14 January 1886 and finally sold to be broken
up on 18 May 1925. With a displacement of 5.461 tons and a measurement of 3.245
tons burthen were her dimensions 240’x 55’x 21’. Speed 11 knots. With a crew numbering 930
men and a an armament of 101 guns.
