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ANDROMEDA 5th rate sailing frigates (1829-1840)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Pique     Plymouth DYd 6.1822 --- --- cancelled 6.1832
Andromeda     East India Co., Bombay 8.1827 3.1829 1829 hulk 1836
Seahorse     Pembroke DYd 11.1826 22.7.1830 8.1830 screw frigate 7.1847, coal hulk 9.1856
Stag     Pembroke DYd 4.1828 2.10.1830 10.1830 BU 8.1866
Euphrates     Portsmouth DYd 30.6.1828 --- --- cancelled 2.1831
Maeander     Chatham DYd 2.1829 5.5.1840 1840 coastguard hulk 1.1857
Forth     Pembroke DYd 11.1828 1.8.1833 2.9.1833 screw frigate 7.1847, coal hulk 10.1856
Statira     Plymouth DYd 12.1823 --- --- cancelled 8.1832
Tigris     Plymouth DYd 6.1822 --- --- cancelled 8.1832

 

Data variant sailing

Displacement normal, t

1215bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

48.5 gundeck

Breadth, m

12.8

Draught, m

4.11 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

16 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr 17cwt SBML carronades, 28 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr 38cwt SBML, 2 x 1 - 81/20 9pdr 26cwt SBML

Complement

315

Project history: 46-gun 5th rate 18pdr frigates. Further modification of Seringapatam class design.

Modernizations: 1830s, all: were rearmed with 2 x 1 - 204/12 68pdr shell SBML, 40 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr SBML

1847, Seahorse, Forth: were converted to screw frigates with data as given in the table

Data variant

screw

Displacement normal, t

Seahorse: 1799

Forth: 1793

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

50.0 gundeck

Breadth, m

12.9

Draught, m

6.05 hold depth

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 2-cyl HSE, trunk

Power, h. p.

Seahorse: 832ihp

Forth: 834ihp

Max speed, kts

Seahorse: 9.3

Forth: 9.4

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 254/11 10'' 86cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 194/16 56pdr 85cwt SBML, 20 x 1 - 177/16 42pdr 66cwt SBML

Complement

320

Naval service: No significant events.

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