| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Gorgon | Pembroke DYd | 7.1836 | 31.8.1837 | 30.8.1838 | sold 10.1864 |
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Displacement normal, t |
1610 |
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Displacement full, t |
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Length, m |
54.3 pp |
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Breadth, m |
11.4 |
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Draught, m |
7.01 hold depth |
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No of shafts |
2 side wheels |
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Machinery |
sails + 4 flue boilers, 1 2-cyl DA |
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Power, h. p. |
800ihp |
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Max speed, kts |
9.5 |
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Fuel, t |
coal 380 |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
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Armament |
2 x 1 - 254/11 10'' 84cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 64cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 175/8 42pdr 22cwt SBML carronades |
|
Complement |
160 |
Project history: 1st rate steam vessel, since 1844 1st class sloop. Symonds and Edye design, approved in 1836. Initially schooner rig, later brig-rigged. The original design provided 16 32pdr guns on medium and upper decks and 220nhp engine. As troopship Gorgon can carry 160troops with field guns and their limbers.
Modernizations: 1856: - 1 x 1 - 254/11, 2 x 1 - 175/8; + 1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML
Naval service: No significant events.
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