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CHAMPION sailing sloop (1824)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Champion     Portsmouth DYd 11.1823 31.5.1824 16.9.1824 harbour police vessel 9.1859

 

Displacement normal, t

456bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

33.4 gundeck

Breadth, m

9.41

Draught, m

2.36 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 SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 107/16 9pdr SBML

Complement

125

Project history: 18-gun flush-decked sloop. Designed in 1823 by Captain John Hayes.

Modernizations: 1848: - 4 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML

Naval service: No significant events.

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