GOMER paddle steamer

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Given as the first French navy steamvessel.
She was built as wooden hulled three-masted paddleship, with the intention to use her in the packet service across the Atlantic, but she was not suitable and transferred to the French Navy during building.
Her coal bunkers were so large she could make the crossing without having to call a port for bunkers.
29 September 1840 keel laid down.
19 July 1841 launched under the name GOMER.
Displacement 2.700 ton, dim. 70.90 x 12.20 5.30m., 19.83 over paddle wheels.
Powered by a steamengine manufactured by Fawcett, Liverpool, 450 hp., speed 10 knots, during trials she made a speed of 11.7 knots.
Armament in 1848: 6 – 16cm., 8 – 30 pdrs. guns. In 1852 she carried 8 – 16cm and 12 – 30 pdrs. guns.
Crew 271.
15 December 1841 completed.

June 1842 fitted out at Cherbourg for a cruise to Brazil and New York.
1843 Returned to Rochefort.
1844 Made a cruise to the West Indies.
October 1844 brings King Louis-Philippe to Portsmouth for an official visit to Britain.
1851 Bombarded the village of Salé in Marocco.
From 1853 till 1854 part of 1st Squadron at the Crimea.
1859 Used for operations in the Adriatic.
Between 1860 and 1862 used in Algeria, Middle East and Italy.
1862 Used as a tug for the laying of a British electric cable between Toulon and Port Mahon, Minorca.
1865 In reserve.
1868 Stripped of all useful parts and then broken up.

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Source: Translated from http://dossiersmarine.free.fr/fs_f_F5.html