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VICTORIA screw sloop (RAN) (1855)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Victoria (Victoria, Australia)     Young, Magnay & Co, Limehouse 1.1855 30.6.1855 22.11.1855 Customs 1880

 

Displacement normal, t

880

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

50.9 pp

Breadth, m

8.36

Draught, m

3.66 hold depth

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE

Power, h. p.

150nhp

Max speed, kts

9.5

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 6 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt MLSB

Complement

95

Project history: 8-gun (as designed) wooden-hulled sloop for the naval service of Victoria, Australia. First Australian steam warship.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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