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RACER screw sloops (1856-1861)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Cordelia     Pembroke DYd 10.1855 3.7.1856 1856 sold 5.1870
Racer     Deptford DYd 1.10.1856 4.11.1857 22.7.1858 BU 1876
Gannet     Pembroke DYd 12.1856 29.12.1857 9.3.1859 BU 2.1877
Icarus     Deptford DYd 7.4.1857 22.10.1858 28.12.1859 sold 1.1875
Pantaloon     Devonport DYd 2.11.1857 26.9.1860 17.9.1861 sold 9.1867

 

Displacement normal, t

861

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

46.0 pp

Breadth, m

8.86

Draught, m

4.34

No of shafts

1

Machinery

Cordelia, Racer, Gannet, Pantaloon: sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE

Icarus: sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE, trunk

Power, h. p.

Cordelia: 461ihp

Racer: 522ihp

Gannet: 617ihp

Icarus: 608ihp

Pantaloon: 484ihp

Max speed, kts

Cordelia: 9.9

Racer: 9.5

Gannet: 10.8

Icarus: 10.1

Pantaloon: 8.9

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 58cwt MLSB, 10 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt MLSB

Complement

120

Project history: 11-gun wooden-hulled sloops, lengthened version of Swallow of 1855 to obtain higher speed. Pantaloon was probably of Racer class, but this is unconfirmed.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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