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BEAGLE sailing schooners (1873)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Beagle     John Cuthbert, Miller's Point, Sydney   5.12.1872 8.1873 sold 1883
Sandfly     John Cuthbert, Miller's Point, Sydney   5.12.1872 8.1873 sold 1883
Renard     John Cuthbert, Miller's Point, Sydney   16.1.1873 8.1873 sold 1884
Conflict     John Cuthbert, Miller's Point, Sydney   11.2.1873 8.1873 sold 1882

 

Displacement normal, t

120bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

23.5 gundeck

Breadth, m

5.64

Draught, m

2.59 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 114/18 12pdr SBML

Complement

 

Project history: Schooners built to help enforce the Imperial Parliament's Kidnapping Act of 1872, which aimed to eliminate the practice of kidnapping Pacific islanders as a labour force for white settles in tropical NE Australia, known in Australia as 'blackbirding'.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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