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SCOUT sailing sloop (1832)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Scout     Chatham DYd 10.1831 15.6.1832 26.10.1832 BU 10.1852

 

Displacement normal, t

481bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

35.1 gundeck

Breadth, m

9.55

Draught, m

4.34 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 - 107/16 9pdr SBML

Complement

125

Project history: 18-gun flush-decked sloop. Robert Seppings design of 1829. As Satellite but larger. Pheasant and Redwing were ordered but not started.

Modernizations: 1846: - 4 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML

Naval service: No significant events.

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