| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Niger | Woolwich DYd | 5.1845 | 18.11.1846 | 16.8.1850 | sold 12.1869 | ||
| Florentia | Woolwich DYd | 1846 | --- | --- | cancelled 5.1849 |
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Displacement normal, t |
1454 |
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Displacement full, t |
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Length, m |
57.9 pp |
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Breadth, m |
10.1 |
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Draught, m |
4.24 mean |
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No of shafts |
1 |
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Machinery |
sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE, trunk |
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Power, h. p. |
673ihp |
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Max speed, kts |
10.3 |
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Fuel, t |
coal |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
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Armament |
(1 x 1 - 254/11 10'' 85cwt shell SBML, 4 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML, 1 x 1 - 194/16 56pdr 87cwt SBML, 2 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr 17cwt SBML) or (4 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 194/16 56pdr 85cwt SBML, 2 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML) |
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Complement |
145 |
Project history: 8 (later 14-gun) wooden-hulled sloop, reclassed as corvette in 1862. John Fincham design, 1844.
Modernizations: 1850: rearmed with 12 guns
1856: armed with 14 32pdr MLSB guns.
Naval service: No significant events.
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