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ALGERINE screw gunboats (1857)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Jaseur     R & H Green, Blackwall 2.9.1856 7.3.1857 5.9.1857 wrecked 26.2.1859
Jasper     R & H Green, Blackwall 26.9.1856 18.3.1857 5.9.1857 to China 8.1862 (Amoy)
Algerine     W & H Pitcher, Northfleet 1.10.1856 24.2.1857 9.4.1857 sold 4.1872
Lee     W & H Pitcher, Northfleet 1.10.1856 28.2.1857 13.4.1857 sunk 25.6.1859
Leven     W & H Pitcher, Northfleet 1.10.1856 7.3.1857 24.4.1857 sold 7.1873
Slaney     W & H Pitcher, Northfleet 1.10.1856 17.3.1857 27.4.1857 wrecked 9.5.1870

 

Displacement normal, t

370

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

38.1 pp

Breadth, m

7.01

Draught, m

2.82 hull depth

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + boilers, 1 1-cyl HSE direct-acting

Power, h. p.

294

Max speed, kts

9

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 206/14 68pdr 87cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 148/8 24pdr SBML howitzers

Complement

50

Project history: Wooden-hulled, design of 1856. Enlarged Albacore class. Reclassed as gunvessels in June 1859.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Jaseur wrecked on the Paxo Nuevo Shoal 26.2.1859, en route from Port Royal to Greytown. Lee sunk in action with the Taku forts, Peiho River, China 25.6.1859. Slaney wrecked in a typhoon in the Paracel Islands near Hong Kong 9.5.1870.

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