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HMS Pandora (1833)

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HMS Pandora (1833)
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HMS Pandora was a 3-gun brig of the Royal Navy, in service from 1833 to 1862.

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Map of the Cape of Good Hope with soundings made by Pandora in 1851

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Between 1845 and 1848 Pandora, under the command of James Wood, was used as a tender to HMS Herald.[1] During this time she was involved in survey work on the west Coast of the Americas from Colombia to Vancouver Island.[2]

From 20 December 1850 to 5 June 1856[3] her captain was Commander Byron Drury,[4] under whose command she spent four and a half years surveying the New Zealand coast.[5]

Thomas Kerr her Master.[when?][citation needed]

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