HMS Bulldog (1845)

H.M. Steam Frigate Bulldog steaming into Kioge Bay with Her Britannic Majesty's Minister at Copenhagen on board - The Bearer of the Declaration of War with Russia by Britain in 1854, lithograph by Dutton
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Bulldog
Ordered	18 March 1841
Builder	Royal Dockyard, Chatham
Cost	£58,122
Laid down	7 July 1844
Launched	2 October 1845
Completed	7 September 1846
Commissioned	25 June 1846
Honours and awards	Baltic 1854-1855
Fate	Ran aground and blown up 23 October 1865
General characteristics
Type	Steam Vessels (SV2) First Class Sloop
Tons burthen	1125+71⁄94 bm
Length	190 ft 0 in (57.9 m) gundeck 166 ft 2.125 in (50.7 m) keel for tonnage
Beam	36 ft 0.75 in (11.0 m) maximum 35 ft 8.25 in (10.9 m) for tonnage
Draught	7 ft 11.5 in (2.4 m) forward 8 ft 5 in (2.6 m) aft
Depth of hold	21 ft 0 in (6.4 m)
Installed power	500 NHP
Propulsion	2-cylinder VSE direct acting steam engine Paddles
Armament	2 × 42-pdr (84 cwt) MLSB guns on pivot mounts 2 × 68-pdr (64 cwt) MLSB guns on broadside trucks 2 × 42-pdr (22 cwt) carronades 1862 Armament change 1 × 68-pdr 95 cwt or 110=pdr 82 cwt on pivot mount 4 × 8-inch 52 cwt shell guns on broadside trucks

HMS Bulldog was a Bulldog-class sloop designed by Sir William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy. Originally she was ordered as a Driver-class sloop, however, under Admiralty Order of 26 December 1843 she was directed to be built to a new specification.^{[1][full citation needed]} After commissioning she sailed for the Cape of Good Hope. She then was in the Baltic Sea for the Crimean War. She carried out ocean sounding for the Atlantic telegraph. She was lost while in action with the Haitians in 1865.

Bulldog was the third vessel so named since it was used for a 16-gun sloop, launched by Ladd of Dover on 10 November 1782, made a bomb in 1798, converted to a powder hulk 1801 Breaking completed at Portsmouth in December 1829. The vessel had been in French hands from 27 February 1801 to 16 September 1801.^[2]