Satellite 1900
|
Name |
No |
Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
| Satellite | Sheerness DYd | 4.10.1880 | 13.8.1881 | 24.7.1883 | RNVR drill ship 1904 | ||
| Heroine | Devonport DYd | 30.8.1880 | 3.12.1881 | 19.9.1883 | sold to BU 8.1902 | ||
| Hyacinth | Devonport DYd | 30.8.1880 | 20.12.1881 | 27.1.1884 | sold to BU 8.1902 | ||
| Caroline | Sheerness DYd | 24.10.1881 | 25.11.1882 | 27.1.1886 | hulk 1897 | ||
| Royalist | Devonport DYd | 27.4.1881 | 7.3.1883 | 14.4.1886 | hulk 2.1900 | ||
| Rapid | Devonport DYd | 21.4.1881 | 21.3.1883 | 9.9.1884 | hulk 1906 | ||
| Pylades | Sheerness DYd | 1.1.1883 | 5.11.1884 | 17.8.1886 | sold to BU 4.1906 |
|
Displacement normal, t |
1420 |
|
Displacement full, t |
|
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Length, m |
61.0 pp |
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Breadth, m |
11.6 |
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Draught, m |
4.80 |
|
No of shafts |
1 |
|
Machinery |
sails + 1 HC, cylindrical boilers |
|
Power, h. p. |
Satellite, Rapid, Caroline: 1400 Heroine, Hyacinth: 1470 Royalist: 1510 Pylades: 1640 |
|
Max speed, kts |
Satellite, Royalist, Rapid, Caroline, Pylades: 13 Heroine, Hyacinth: 13.1 |
|
Fuel, t |
coal 400 |
|
Endurance, nm(kts) |
6000(10) |
| Armour, mm | steel; deck: 25 - 19 |
|
Armament |
Satellite, Rapid: 2 x 1 - 152/26 BL Mk II, 10 x 1 - 127/25 BL Mk I/II/III/IV, 4 x 1 - 11.4/87 Heroine, Hyacinth, Royalist: 8 x 1 - 152/26 BL Mk II, 4 x 1 - 11.4/87 Caroline, Pylades: 14 x 1 - 127/25 BL Mk I/II/III/IV, 8 x 1 - 11.4/87 |
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Complement |
170 - 200 |
Project history: Designed by Nathaniel Barnaby. This was the only class of wooden or composite-hulled ships to receive a protective deck. Laid down as sloops, they were upgraded to corvettes in 1884, and as such they were the smallest ships to be rated as corvettes. In construction, they were of the same general principle as in the Emerald class. The sailing rig was changed from ship- to barque-rig. Pylades was the last corvette built for the navy until this rate was revived in the Second World War. In contrast to the Emerald class, the mechanical improvements and better workmanship of the compound engines gave these ships large radius of action.
Ship protection: A protective steel deck of 25mm to 19mm extended for 22.3m over the vitals.
Modernizations: 1880s, Satellite: - 10 x 1 - 127/25; + 6 x 1 - 152/26 BL Mk II
1892-1893, Hyacinth: - 8 x 1 - 152/26; + 8 x 1 - 152/26 Mk IV/VI
1892-1893, Rapid: - 8 x 1 - 152/26; + 1 x 1 - 152/26 BL Mk IV, 10 x 1 - 127/25 BL Mk I/III/V
1892-1893, Royalist: - 2 x 1 - 152/26; + 2 x 1 - 152/26 BL Mk IV/VI
Naval service: Royalist, hulked in February 1900 and renamed Colleen in December 1913, was transferred to Irish Free State Government in February 1923.
Satellite 1880s
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