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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

CRUISERS

FURIOUS paddle frigate (1853)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Furious     Portsmouth DYd 6.1848 26.8.1850 18.2.1853 coal hulk 3.1867

 

Displacement normal, t

1287bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

62.8 pp

Breadth, m

11.3

Draught, m

2.97

No of shafts

2 side wheels

Machinery

sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl oscillating engine

Power, h. p.

400nhp

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 254/11 10'' 84cwt shell SBML, 14 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr 50cwt SBML

Complement

175

Project history: 2nd class frigate, 16 guns. John Fincham design of 1848. Originally she had to be a sloop of the Sphinx type. One more ship, Resolute, was cancelled before she was laid down. Wooden hull.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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