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BULLDOG paddle sloops (1846-1847)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Inflexible     Pembroke DYd 1.1844 22.5.1845 9.8.1846 sold 7.1864
Scourge     Portsmouth DYd 2.1844 9.11.1844 13.5.1846 BU 1865
Bulldog     Chatham DYd 7.7.1844 2.10.1845 7.9.1846 sunk 23.10.1865
Fury     Sheerness DYd 6.1845 31.12.1845 6.7.1847 sold 7.1864

 

Displacement normal, t

1124bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

57.9 pp

Breadth, m

11.0

Draught, m

2.46

No of shafts

2 side wheels

Machinery

sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl SE direct action

Power, h. p.

Inflexible: 378nhp

Scourge: 420nhp

Bulldog: 500nhp

Fury: 515nhp

Max speed, kts

Inflexible: 9.5

Bulldog: 10.2

Fury: 10.5

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 254/11 10'' 84cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 64cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 175/8 42pdr 22cwt SBML

Complement

160

Project history: 2nd rate steam vessels, since 1844 1st class sloops. Sir William Symonds design of 1844. Developed from Driver class with redesigned bow and lengthened engine room.

Modernizations: 1856, all: - 1 x 1 - 254/11, 2 x 1 - 204/13, 2 x 1 - 175/8; + 1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 4 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML

early 1860s, some: - 1 x 1 - 206/15; + 1 x 1 - 183/14 110pdr 82cwt BL

Naval service: Bulldog 23.10.1865 was deliberately blown up after running aground in action with Haitian ships and forts at Cape Haytien.

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