allowing ships to bypass the obstacle and avoid a wreck. This location is marked by California Historical Landmark #962, "Blossom Rock Navigation Trees." In 1870, American military engineers, led by R. S. Williamson, were able to develop technology adequate to remove enough of Blossom Rock to mitigate the hazard to ships. Blossom was paid off in May 1828. Between April and August 1829, she was at Woolwich being fitted as a survey ship. In May, Richard Owen recommissioned her for the Jamaica station. She remained there until some point in 1832. While she was there the 1-gun schooner served as Blossoms ship's tender until Monkey wrecked in 1831. The Navy then purchased a second schooner to function as a tender for Blossom, and renamed the tender . The Navy sold Monkey after Blossom returned to Britain in 1832. Fate Blossom was hulked as a lazarette at Sheerness in January 1833, and was broken up at Chatham in August 1848. See also European and American voyages of scientific exploration Blossom Point, Wrangel Island, named after the ship. Notes Sources References Ships of discovery and exploration, by Lincoln P. Paine Earliest Records of the Islands Their Discovery by Captain Beechey, H.M.S. Blossom Mid-Victorian RN vessel HMS Blossom External links 1806 ships Arctic exploration vessels Cormorant-class ship-sloops Survey vessels of the Royal Navy Victorian-era sloops of the United Kingdom