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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

CRUISERS

LEOPARD paddle frigate (1853)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Leopard     Deptford DYd 8.1846 5.11.1850 3.1853 sold 4.1867

 

Displacement normal, t

1413bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

66.4 pp

Breadth, m

11.4

Draught, m

2.77

No of shafts

2 side wheels

Machinery

sails + 4 tubular boilers, 1 2-cyl VDA

Power, h. p.

560nhp

Max speed, kts

11.2

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

4 x 1 - 254/11 10'' 85cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 12 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML

Complement

200

Project history: 2nd class frigate, 18 guns. Committee of Reference (John Fincham) design, approved in 1847. Originally ordered to Odin design but later lengthened by 3m. Wooden hull.

Modernizations: 1862: was rearmed with 1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 5 x 1 - 183/12 100pdr 82cwt Armstrong BL, 8 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 4 x 1 - 126/19 40pdr 32cwt BL

Naval service: No significant events.

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