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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

CRUISERS

VESTAL 6th rate sailing corvettes (1833-1837)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Vestal     Sheerness DYd 5.1832 6.4.1833 15.7.1833 sold 2.1862
Cleopatra     Pembroke DYd 6.1832 28.4.1835 13.9.1835 accommodation ship 9.1857-3/1858, sold 2.1862
Carysfort     Pembroke DYd 9.1832 12.8.1836 18.2.1837 sold 11.1861

 

Displacement normal, t

912bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

39.6 gundeck

Breadth, m

12.3

Draught, m

3.20 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 204/12 68pdr 52cwt SBML, 18 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 40cwt SBML, 6 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML gunnades

Complement

240

Project history: 26-gun 6th rate corvettes. William Symonds design of 1831, replacing the Seppings design for those Andromache class not yet begun.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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