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CRUISERS

GREYHOUND screw sloops (1859-1860)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Greyhound     Pembroke DYd 12.1856 15.6.1859 6.2.1860 harbour service 9.1869
Mutine     Deptford DYd 1.6.1857 30.7.1859 26.11.1859 sold 2.1870

 

Displacement normal, t

1260

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

52.6 pp

Breadth, m

10.1

Draught, m

4.57

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE

Power, h. p.

Greyhound: 743ihp

Mutine: 786ihp

Max speed, kts

Greyhound: 9.8

Mutine: 10.3

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 58cwt MLSB, 16 x 1 - 160/13 32pdr 32cwt MLSB

Complement

165

Project history: 17-gun wooden-hulled sloops, 1855 design, Cruizer class adapted to 200nhp engines. Later reclassed as corvettes.

Modernizations: 1860s, both: - 1 x 1 - 163/18, 4 x 1 - 160/13; + 5 x 1 - 126/23 40pdr 58cwt BL

Naval service: No significant events.

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