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INDEFATIGABLE 4th rate sailing frigates (1850-1854)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Indefatigable     Devonport DYd 22.8.1846 27.7.1848 23.1.1850 TS 1.1865
Phoebe     Devonport DYd 7.8.1848 12.4.1854 12.5.1854 screw frigate 3.1861, sold 4.1876

 

Data variant sailing

Displacement normal, t

2044bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

54.9 gundeck

Breadth, m

15.0

Draught, m

4.84 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

10 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML, 22 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 18 x 1 - 161/16 32pdr 45cwt SBML

Complement

500

Project history: 50-gun 4th rate 32pdr frigates. William Edye design of 1845. Wooden hull.

Modernizations: 1861, Phoebe: was converted to screw frigate with data as given in the table

by 1868, Phoebe: was armed with 4 x 1 - 178/18 7'' 6½ton shell SBML, 24 x 1 - 160/16 64pdr 64cwt SBML

Data variant screw

Displacement normal, t

3584

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

73.3 gundeck

Breadth, m

15.8

Draught, m

5.89

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 2-cyl HSE

Power, h. p.

1780ihp

Max speed, kts

11.9

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 8 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML, 42 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML

Complement

525

Naval service: No significant events.

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