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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

CRUISERS

ORESTES sailing sloop (1824)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Orestes     Portsmouth DYd 4.1823 31.5.1824 16.9.1824 coal depot 11.1852

 

Displacement normal, t

459bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

33.5 gundeck

Breadth, m

9.40

Draught, m

2.29 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

16 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 93/16 6pdr SBML

Complement

125

Project history: 18-gun flush-decked sloop. Shorter 1823 design by Professor Inman.

Modernizations: 1848: - 4 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML, 2 x 1 - 93/16 6pdr SBML; + 2 x 1 - 107/16 9pdr SBML

Naval service: No significant events.

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