HMS Bramble (Cutter)
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The 161-ton, 10-gun cutter HMS Bramble launched at Plymouth Dockyard on 8 April 1822 operated in Australian waters from April 1842 until she was decommissioned in 1876.
Initially, under the command of Lieutenant Charles Bampfield Yule, she served as a tender to HMS Fly on survey work around Australia and as tender to HMS Rattlesnake on surveys of the waters around southern New Guinea and the Louisiade Archipelago.
Between 1855 and 1859 she was assigned as a tender to HMS Calliope on further survey work in Australian waters and and diving operations at Sydney.
An interesting civilian career saw the Bramble serve as a light ship between Sydney Harbour's Middle Head and South Head, a sugar lighter for the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. and a replica of HMS Supply during the 1938 Sesquicentennial celebrations.
Sources:
Wikipedia: HMS Bramble (1822) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Bramble_(1822)
Image: A Man of War Cutter of 10 Guns, as Bramble, &c. Sailing by the wind, on the Larboard tack - Ensign and Pendant flying Fighting Ships 1814-1824. http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/110280
Ackermann (publishers); Knell, William Adolphus (artist); Newton Smith Fielding (engraver), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Man_of_War_Cutter_of_10_Guns,_as_Bramble,_%26c._Sailing_by_the_wind,_on_the_Larboard_tack_-_Ensign_and_Pendant_flying_RMG_PU6129.tiff
