''Gomer'' was a paddle frigate of the

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, lead ship of her class. She served in the Caribbean in 1843, and later served off France and England after being refitted as a royal yacht for

Louis-Philippe Louis Philippe (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850) was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, and the penultimate monarch of France. As Louis Philippe, Duke of Chartres, he distinguished himself commanding troops during the Revolutionary Wa ...

. In August 1843, while serving in the Caribbean, the frigate crew suffered an outbreak of

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, which necessitated the captain to request medical aide from the Pensacola Navy Yard hospital. The crew were under treatment from 23 August to 29 September 1843.Department of the Navy, Case Files for Patients at Naval Hospitals and Registers, Pensacola Navy Hospital, August 23, to 29 September 1843, for Dr. Hulse USN notation re the yellow fever and the Gomer.See 11 Sept 1843, p.75.,Registers of Patients 1812–1929. RG 52: Records of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, 1812–1975, NARA DC In 1851, she took part in the

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. During the

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, she took part in the

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and in the French intervention in Mexico. She was decommissioned in 1868 and broken up soon afterward.

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