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MIRANDA screw sloop (1854)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Miranda     Sheerness DYd 9.1848 18.3.1851 9.3.1854 sold 12.1869

 

Displacement normal, t

1523

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

59.8 pp

Breadth, m

10.4

Draught, m

4.11 mean

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE, geared

Power, h. p.

613ihp

Max speed, kts

10.8

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

14 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML

Complement

170

Project history: 14-gun wooden-hulled sloop, reclassed as corvette in 1862. Lord John Hay design (Improved Rattler), approved in 1847.

Modernizations: 1856: + 1 x 1 - 206/14 68pdr 87cwt shell SBML

Naval service: No significant events.

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