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BRISTOL 4th rate screw frigates (1861-1874)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Newcastle     Deptford DYd 6.12.1858 16.10.1860 21.9.1874 powder hulk 1889
Glasgow     Portsmouth DYd 12.9.1859 28.3.1861 24.5.1871 sold 12.1884
Tweed     Pembroke DYd 3.7.1860 --- --- cancelled 12.1864
Bristol     Woolwich DYd 16.9.1859 12.2.1861 10.1865 sold 7.1883
Undaunted     Chatham DYd 28.5.1859 1.1.1861 16.7.1861 sold 11.1882
Dryad     Portsmouth DYd 2.1.1860 --- --- cancelled 12.1864
Belvidera     Chatham DYd 30.4.1860 --- --- cancelled 12.1864
Pomone     Chatham DYd 10.9.1860 --- --- cancelled 12.1863

 

Displacement normal, t

4020

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

76.2 pp

Breadth, m

16.0

Draught, m

5.84 hull depth

No of shafts

1 (hoisting)

Machinery

sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE

Power, h. p.

Newcastle: 2354

Glasgow: 2020

Bristol: 2088

Undaunted: 2261

Max speed, kts

Newcastle: 12.4

Glasgow: 11.5

Bristol: 11.3

Undaunted: 11.8

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 30 x 1 - 204/13 8'' 65cwt shell SBML, 20 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML

Complement

550

Project history: 51-gun frigates, design approved in 1858. Wooden hull. Raleigh, Briton, Barham, Boadicea and Dextrous were cancelled before they were laid down. Tweed was proposed to be fitted as an ironclad before her final cancellation.

Modernizations: 1870s, all: had 28 guns

Naval service: No significant events.

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