HMS Salamander was a 818 ton, 4-gun paddle sloop

Sloop

A sloop is a sail boat with a fore-and-aft rig and a single mast farther forward than the mast of a cutter....

 launched on 16 May 1832 from Sheerness Dockyard.

She participated during the Second Anglo-Burmese War

Second Anglo-Burmese War

The Second Anglo-Burmese War was the second of the three wars fought between the Burmese and the British Empire during the 19th century, with the outcome of the gradual extinction of Burmese sovereignty and independence....

 in 1852 and also the Carlist Wars

Carlist Wars

The Carlist Wars in Spain were the last major European civil wars in which contenders fought to establish their claim to a throne. Several times during the period from 1833 to 1876 the Carlists — followers of Infante Carlos and his descendants — rallied to the cry of "God, Country, and King" and...

 in 1855 until 1860. She was assigned to the Australia Station

Australia Station

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, where she transported the party to set up the coaling station at Albany Pass. She undertook survey work along the Great Barrier Reef, running aground on a reef, which was named in her honour, before being refloated. She then underook survey duties of Wilsons Promontory

Wilsons Promontory

Wilsons Promontory is a peninsula that forms the southernmost part of the Australian mainland and is located at . South Point at is the southernmost tip of Wilsons Promontory and hence of mainland Australia...

 and Port Phillip Bay, before leaving the Australia Station on 4 July 1867.

She was broken up in 1883 at Sheerness Dockyard.