Daring 1876
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Fantome | Pembroke DYd | 1872 | 26.3.1873 | 12.1873 | sold 2.1889 | ||
| Albatross | Chatham DYd | 1872 | 27.4.1873 | 2.1874 | BU 2.1889 | ||
| Sappho | Money Wigram & Sons, Blackwall | 1872 | 20.10.1873 | 2.1874 | sold 12.1887 | ||
| Egeria | Pembroke DYd | 30.12.1872 | 1.11.1873 | 11.1874 | survey ship 10.1886 | ||
| Flying Fish (ex-Daring) | Chatham DYd | 1872 | 27.11.1873 | 6.1874 | survey ship 1878 | ||
| Daring | Money Wigram & Sons, Blackwall | 1872 | 4.2.1874 | 9.1874 | sold 8.1889 |
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Displacement normal, t |
949 |
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Displacement full, t |
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Length, m |
48.8 pp |
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Breadth, m |
9.55 |
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Draught, m |
3.81 hold depth |
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No of shafts |
1 |
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Machinery |
Fantome, Albatross, Sappho, Egeria, Flying Fish: sails + 3 cylindrical boilers, 1 2-cyl HC Daring: sails + 3 cylindrical boilers, 1 2-cyl HC trunk |
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Power, h. p. |
FAntome: 975 Albatross: 838 Sappho: 884 Egeria: 1011 Flyng Fish: 836 Daring: 915 |
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Max speed, kts |
Fantome: 11.1 Albatross: 10.5 Sappho, Daring: 10.6 Egeria: 11.3 Flying Fish: 11 |
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Fuel, t |
coal 100 |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
1000(10) |
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Armament |
2 x 1 - 178/16 MLR Mk III, 2 x 1 - 160/16 64pdr 71cwt MLR |
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Complement |
125 |
Project history: Designed by Nathaniel
Barnaby. With his appointment as Surveyor, there was a return to the smaller
size of sloop, a policy which was brought about by the declining status of this
rate of ship. Reed's ram-bow was not repeated. Although an interesting and
somewhat theoretical concept of hull design, its disadvantage was that it made a
ship too lively. The Fantome class consisted of the first composite-built
sloops, the first to be fitted with compound engines, and all guns were pivoted.
Simple expansion engines were no longer fitted since compounding had a marked
effect on fuel economy. With a bunkerage capacity of around 250t, their radius
of action was 1000nm at 10kts.
These sloops were the largest warships in the navy to retain
the system of all guns pivoted, in contrast to the larger sloops where both
traversing and broadside mountings were fitted. The guns were slide-mounted,
pivoted at the after or inboard end, with runners forward, engaging in racers
let into the deck, and fired through embrasures. They were fitted with a
Griffiths 3.4m diameter screw.
With the exceptions of Egeria and Flying Fish,
no vessels in this class were rearmed. The two named ships were converted into
survey vessels. All these vessels had rounded sterns but were not particularly
handsome with their tall thin funnels and vertical stems.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: No significant events.
Albatross 1873
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