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CRUISERS

ENCOUNTER screw sloops (1849)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Encounter     Pembroke DYd 6.1845 5.9.1846 12.10.1849 BU 5.1866
Harrier     Pembroke DYd 1846 --- --- cancelled 4.1851

 

Displacement normal, t

1482

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

57.9 pp

Breadth, m

10.1

Draught, m

4.24 mean

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE, trunk

Power, h. p.

673ihp

Max speed, kts

10.3

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

(1 x 1 - 254/11 10'' 85cwt shell SBML, 4 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML, 1 x 1 - 194/16 56pdr 87cwt SBML, 2 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr 17cwt SBML)

or (2 x 1 - 194/16 56pdr 85cwt SBML, 4 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML)

Complement

145

Project history: 8 (later 14-gun) sloop, reclassed as corvette in 1862. John Fincham design, 1844.

Modernizations: 1850: rearmed with 12 guns

1856: armed with 14 32pdr MLSB guns.

Naval service: No significant events.

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