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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

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COSSACK 6th rate screw corvettes (1854-1855)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Cossack (ex-Âèòÿçü [Vityaz'])     W & H Pitcher, Northfleet ~1852 15.5.1854 10.10.1854 sold 5.1875
Tartar (ex-Âîèí [Voin])     W & H Pitcher, Northfleet ~1852 17.5.1854 26.1.1855 BU 2.1866

 

Displacement normal, t

1965

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

59.4 pp

Breadth, m

11.7

Draught, m

5.38

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE

Power, h. p.

Cossack: 870ihp

Tartar: 731ihp

Max speed, kts

Cossack: 9.1

Tartar: 9.4

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

20 x 1 - 204/10 8'' 42cwt shell SBML

Complement

 

Project history: Wooden-hulled 20-gun 1st class corvettes. Built for Russia but were seized for Royal Navy in the time of Crimean war.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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