HMS Valorous (1851)

HMS Valorous was one of two 16-gun, steam-powered Magicienne-class second-class paddle frigates built for the Royal Navy in the 1850s.

[1] The ships were fitted with a pair of 2-cylinder oscillating steam engines, rated at 400 nominal horsepower, that drove their paddlewheels.

[1] She was originally ordered on 25 April 1847 as a first-class sloop to John Edye's design, approved on 12 August 1847.

In 1857 she was on the North America and West Indies Station, and from 1863 until she was paid off in September 1867 she operated off the Cape of Good Hope.

[5] Carrying extra stores, she accompanied the British Arctic Expedition ships Alert and Discovery as far as Qeqertarsuaq, Godhavn in 1875.

[6] On 27 July, Valorous ran aground 10 nautical miles (19 km) off Holstenborg, Greenland.

Niagara , Valorous , Gorgon (misspelt Gordon ) and Agamemnon laying the Transatlantic telegraph cable at mid-ocean in 1858
The accident to the P&O Steamer Australia , where Valourous came to assist. The Graphic 1879
The Irish Relief Squadron, under the Duke of Edinburgh , Valorous distributing stores at Killerran . Illustrated London News 1880