HMS Odin was a steam-powered first-class paddle frigate

Frigate

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 of the Royal Navy

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. She was launched in 1846 and was used in the Baltic theatre of the Crimean War.

The ship was launched on 24 July 1846, at 1,301 73/94 bm

Builder's Old Measurement

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, and decommissioned in 1865. She was sold that year for breaking up to Castle & Beech. She was initially intended to carry eight 32pdr carronade

Carronade

The carronade was a short smoothbore, cast iron cannon, developed for the Royal Navy by the Carron Company, an ironworks in Falkirk, Scotland, UK. It was used from the 1770s to the 1850s. Its main function was to serve as a powerful, short-range anti-ship and anti-crew weapon...

s on the middle deck, but this idea was later discarded and these guns were never fitted. Between 1850 and 1851 she was fitted out for an Ambassador.

The ship had six commanders during her operational lifetime. Captain Frederick Thomas Pelham

Frederick Thomas Pelham

Rear Admiral Frederick Thomas Pelham CB was an Royal Navy officer who went on to be Second Naval Lord.-Naval career:...

 took command at her commissioning at Portsmouth

Portsmouth

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 on 24 May 1847. He paid her off at Portsmouth and was succeeded by Commander William Saltonstall Wiseman, who took over on 1 August 1851, until October 1851. Captain Francis Scott  was in command from 18 December 1852 until 3 February 1855, Captain James Willcox took over on 7 September 1855 and Captain Lord John Hay commanded Odin from 20 September 1859 until 1863.

Sources

• Lyon, David and Winfield, Rif, The Sail and Steam Navy List, All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815-1889, pub Chatham, 2004, ISBN 1-86176-032-9
• Southport Visiter, 9 March 1854