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TIGER paddle frigate (1852)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Tiger     Chatham DYd 11.1847 1.12.1849 21.8.1852 wrecked 12.5.1854

 

Displacement normal, t

1222bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

62.5 pp

Breadth, m

11.0

Draught, m

7.47 hold depth

No of shafts

2 side wheels

Machinery

sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl SE oscillating

Power, h. p.

1300

Max speed, kts

9 - 10

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 254/11 10'' 84cwt shell SBML, 14 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr 50cwt SBML

Complement

175

Project history: 16-gun 2nd class paddle frigate, John Edye design, approved in 1847. Wooden hull.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Tiger grounded off Odessa 12.5.1854 and set on fire by Russian coastal artillery, then blew up after gunfire of British ships.

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