| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Tribune | Sheerness DYd | 4.1851 | 21.1.1853 | 3.8.1853 | sold 8.1866 | ||
| Curacoa | Pembroke DYd | 1.1852 | 13.4.1854 | 14.11.1854 | BU 7.1869 |
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Displacement normal, t |
Tribune: 2220 |
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Displacement full, t |
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Length, m |
58.5 pp |
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Breadth, m |
13.1 |
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Draught, m |
3.94 hold depth |
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No of shafts |
1 |
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Machinery |
sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE |
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Power, h. p. |
Tribune: 1068ihp Curacoa: 1354ihp |
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Max speed, kts |
Tribune: 10.4 Curacoa: 10.8 |
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Fuel, t |
coal |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
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Armament |
1 x 1 - 254/11 10'' 85cwt shell SBML, 20 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 10 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML |
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Complement |
300 |
Project history: 2nd class 31-gun frigates. Surveyor's Department design, approved in 1850. Tribune was first ordered in 1846 as 28-gun sailing frigate and reordered as screw ship in 1850, Curacoa utilised the frames prepared for cancelled 36-gun sailing frigates. Wooden hull.
Modernizations: 1863, both: reduced to 23-gun.
Naval service: No significant events.
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