| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Fenella | W & H Pitcher, Northfleet | 5.3.1856 | 19.5.1856 | 26.1.1857 | dredger 3.1867 | ||
| Garnet | W & H Pitcher, Northfleet | 5.3.1856 | 31.5.1856 | 26.1.1857 | BU 5.1864 | ||
| Handy | W & H Pitcher, Northfleet | 5.3.1856 | 31.5.1856 | 26.1.1857 | sold 5.1868 | ||
| Hunter | W & H Pitcher, Northfleet | 12.3.1856 | 7.6.1856 | 26.1.1857 | sold 1884 | ||
| Drake | Pembroke DYd | 1.1856 | 8.3.1856 | 31.5.1856 | sold 2.1869 | ||
| Janus | Pembroke DYd | 25.1.1856 | 8.3.1856 | 31.5.1856 | coal lighter 12.1869 | ||
| Clown | Wm Cowley Miller, Toxteth Dock, Liverpool | 14.1.1856 | 20.5.1856 | 4.5.1857 | coal lighter 1867 | ||
| Kestrel | Wm Cowley Miller, Toxteth Dock, Liverpool | 14.1.1856 | 26.5.1856 | 4.5.1857 | sold 16.3.1866 | ||
| Ready | Briggs & Co, Sunderland | 2.1856 | 12.5.1856 | 29.4.1857 | BU 1.1864 | ||
| Thrush | Briggs & Co, Sunderland | 2.1856 | 12.5.1856 | 29.4.1857 | BU 3.1864 | ||
| Watchful | T & Wm Smith, North Shields | 25.2.1856 | 4.6.1856 | 11.4.1857 | tender 1863 | ||
| Woodcock | T & Wm Smith, North Shields | 25.2.1856 | 6.6.1856 | 11.4.1857 | sold 2.1871 |
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Displacement normal, t |
249 |
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Displacement full, t |
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Length, m |
33.5 pp |
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Breadth, m |
6.65 |
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Draught, m |
1.22 |
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No of shafts |
1 |
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Machinery |
sails + 2 cylindrical boilers, 1 1-cyl HSE direct-acting |
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Power, h. p. |
Woodcock: 145ihp |
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Max speed, kts |
Woodcock: 7.5 |
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Fuel, t |
coal |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
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Armament |
1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 1 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML |
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Complement |
30 |
Project history: Wooden-hulled gunboats. Improved Cheerful.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: Hunter was never completed for sea and sent to the sale list in June 1869 but was sold only in 1884. Kestrel sunk at the Peiho forts in June 1859 but was salved.
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