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CONTEST sailing brig (1846)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Contest     Joseph White, Cowes 6.1845 11.4.1846 14.8.1846 BU 9.1868

 

Displacement normal, t

446bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

33.2 gundeck

Breadth, m

9.55

Draught, m

4.62 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

10 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr SBML

Complement

130

Project history: 12-gun 3rd class brig. Design by Joseph White, approved in 1845.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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