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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

CRUISERS

SEVERN 4th rate screw frigate (1860)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Severn     Chatham DYd 13.8.1849 24.1.1856 // 8.2.1860 1860 BU 4.1876

 

Displacement normal, t

3536

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

73.3 pp

Breadth, m

15.3

Draught, m

6.93

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + rectangular boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE

Power, h. p.

2092ihp

Max speed, kts

11.7

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 30 x 1 - 204/13 8'' 65cwt shell SBML, 20 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML

Complement

525

Project history: 51-gun frigate, converted on the stocks. Wooden hull.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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