HMS Geyser (1841)

HMS Geyser was a Driver-class wooden paddle sloop of the Royal Navy constructed in 1841 and broken up in 1866.

Power for her paddles came from a Seaward & Capel 2-cylinder direct-acting steam engine developing 280 nominal horsepower,[1] which was fitted at Woolwich in May 1841.

[Note 2] Having conducted engine trials in the River Thames, she left Woolwich for Sheerness on 31 October 1841 to be coppered and made ready for sea.

[2] On 16 February 1850 she rescued the survivors of the barque Childe Harold, a passenger ship homeward bound from Australia.

The slaver was sent for adjudication to the Vice-Admiralty Court at St. Helena, and in June 1851 she was sentenced to be restored to her master without costs.

The Geyser towing Ten Prizes out of Faro Sound in 1855. The Illustrated London News .