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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

CRUISERS

BRISK screw sloop (1853)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Brisk     Woolwich DYd 1.1849 2.6.1851 24.8.1853 sold 1.1870

 

Displacement normal, t

1474

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

59.0 pp

Breadth, m

10.7

Draught, m

4.19 mean

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE

Power, h. p.

505ihp

Max speed, kts

7.4

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 206/14 68pdr 87cwt shell SBML, 12 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML

Complement

170

Project history: 14-gun wooden-hulled sloop, reclassed as corvette in 1862. Committee of Reference design of 1847, enlarged Rattler.

Modernizations: 1864: re-engined with 1 2-cel HSE (837ihp, 10kts)

Naval service: No significant events.

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