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CHEERFUL screw gunboats (1855-1858)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Cheerful     Deptford DYd 2.7.1855 6.10.1855 11.12.1855 BU 1.1869
Chub     Sheerness DYd 6.7.1855 15.10.1855 20.2.1856 BU 1.1869
Daisy     Thomas Westbrook, Blackwall 14.11.1855 20.3.1856 29.4.1856 BU 1.1869
Dwarf     Thomas Westbrook, Blackwall 19.11.1855 8.4.1856 3.7.1856 BU 1863
Blossom (ex-Careful)     John Laird, Sons & Co, Birkenhead 11.1855 21.4.1856 7.1856 BU 10.1864
Gadfly     John Laird, Sons & Co, Birkenhead 1.12.1855 21.4.1856 7.1856 BU 11.1864
Gnat     John Laird, Sons & Co, Birkenhead 12.1855 10.5.1856 7.1856 BU 8.1864
Garland     John Laird, Sons & Co, Birkenhead 12.1855 7.5.1856 7.1856 BU 6.1864
Fidget     Wm Joyce, Greenwich 27.11.1855 7.4.1856 5.7.1856 BU 1863
Flirt     Wm Joyce, Greenwich 27.11.1855 7.6.1856 29.4.1858 BU 4.1864
Onyx     Young, Magnay & Co, Limehouse 15.12.1855 3.4.1856 15.4.1856 dockyard craft 1869
Pert     Young, Magnay & Co, Limehouse 15.12.1855 3.4.1856 15.4.1856 BU 3.1864
Midge     Young, Magnay & Co, Limehouse 15.12.1855 8.5.1856 26.7.1856 BU 10.1864
Tiny     Young, Magnay & Co, Limehouse 15.12.1855 8.5.1856 1856? BU 1.1864
Angler     Devonport DYd 4.12.1855 8.3.1856 7.4.1856 BU 1.1869
Ant     Devonport DYd 4.12.1855 22.3.1856 28.6.1858 BU 2.1869
Nettle     Pembroke DYd 1.12.1855 9.2.1856 17.4.1856 BU 10.1867
Pet     Pembroke DYd 12.1855 9.2.1856 17.4.1856 hulk 1865
Decoy     Pembroke DYd 12.1855 21.2.1856 17.4.1856 BU 2.1869
Rambler (ex-Ramble)     Pembroke DYd 12.1855 21.2.1856 17.4.1856 BU 1.1869

 

Displacement normal, t

212bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

30.5 pp

Breadth, m

6.65

Draught, m

1.98

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 2 cylindrical boilers, 1 1-cyl HSE direct-acting

Power, h. p.

Onyx: 92ihp

Max speed, kts

Onyx: 6.8

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML

Complement

30

Project history: Wooden-hulled 'Crimean' gunboats. W. H. Walker shallow-draught design of 1855.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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