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CONFLICT screw sloops (1849-1853)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Conflict     Pembroke DYd 7.1845 5.8.1846 20.11.1849 sold 1863
Desperate     Pembroke DYd 10.1845 23.5.1849 9.5.1853 BU 8.1865
Enchantress     Pembroke DYd 1846 --- --- cancelled 4.1851
Falcon     Pembroke DYd 1846 --- --- cancelled 4.1851

 

Displacement normal, t

1628

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

58.7 pp

Breadth, m

10.5

Draught, m

4.80 mean

No of shafts

1

Machinery

Conflict: sails + boilers, 1 4-cyl SE

Desperate: sails + boilers, 1 4-cyl SE, geared

Power, h. p.

Conflict: 772ihp

Desperate: 699ihp

Max speed, kts

9.4

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

6 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 194/16 56pdr 85cwt SBML, 2 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML

Complement

145

Project history: 1st class 8-gun wooden-hulled sloops. Sir William Symonds design, approved in 1845. Both were lengthened by 2.3m before completion.

Modernizations: 1857, both: - 2 x 1 - 194/16, 2 x 1 - 160/11; + 1 x 1 - 254/11 10'' 85cwt shell SBML, 1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML

Naval service: No significant events.

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