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CRUISERS

TRIDENT paddle sloop (1846)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Trident     Ditchburn & Mare, Blackwall 1845 16.12.1845 8.8.1846 BU 1.1866

 

Displacement normal, t

903

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

54.9 pp

Breadth, m

9.60

Draught, m

3.28

No of shafts

2 side wheels

Machinery

sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl SE oscillating

Power, h. p.

350nhp

Max speed, kts

9.5

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 254/11 10'' 85cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML

Complement

135

Project history: 3rd class iron-hulled sloop. Builder's design, approved in 1843.

Modernizations: 1850s: + 2 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML

Naval service: No significant events.

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