HMS Furious (1850)

10 x 32pdr guns (Middle deck) 2 x 10in guns on pivots (Upper deck) HMS Furious was a 16 gun steam powered paddle wheel frigate of the Royal Navy built at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 26 August 1850.

On 29 October 1853, Furious struck a sunken rock in the Dardanelles 20 nautical miles (37 km) from Gallipoli, Ottoman Empire and was damaged.

Consequently, Admiral Dundas transferred his flag to HMS Tiger.

[1] On 15 April 1854, she sank the corvette Andromache at Odessa after coming under fire from shore-based artillery.

[3] She became a coal hulk at Portsmouth in March 1867 and was sold for breaking up in 1884 to Castle, of Charlton.

Furious at Sebastopol, during the first day's attack by the allied fleet and armies of France and England on 17 October 1854
HMS Furious along with 14 gunboats sent as reinforcements to the China squadron, en route to China, at Funchal in 1857