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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

CRUISERS

ISTER 4th rate screw frigates (1866)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Ister     Devonport DYd 8.11.1860 --- --- cancelled 12.1864
Endymion     Deptford DYd 26.10.1860 18.11.1865 9.1866 hulk 1885
Blonde     Woolwich DYd 10.9.1860 --- --- cancelled 12.1863
Astrea     Devonport DYd 21.10.1861 --- --- cancelled 12.1863
Dartmouth     Woolwich DYd 6.11.1860 --- --- cancelled 12.1864

 

Displacement normal, t

3197

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

73.2 pp

Breadth, m

14.6

Draught, m

5.26 hold depth

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + rectangular boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE

Power, h. p.

Endymion: 1620ihp

Max speed, kts

Endymion: 11.3

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

22 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr SBML, 8 x 1 - 160/16 64pdr SBML

Complement

450

Project history: Frigates, 36 guns. Isaac Watts design was approved in 1860. Wooden hull.

Modernizations: 1866, Endymion: reduced to 21 guns.

Naval service: No significant events.

Endymion 1865

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