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DAPPER screw gunboats (1855)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Lark     Deptford DYd 5.10.1854 15.3.1855 3.4.1855 sold 7.1878
Magpie     Deptford DYd 5.10.1854 15.3.1855 3.4.1855 wrecked 8.4.1864
Dapper     R & H Green, Blackwall 10.1854 31.3.1855 19.4.1855 training hulk 1885
Fancy     R & H Green, Blackwall 10.1854 31.3.1855 16.4.1855 hulk 1876
Grinder     J & R White, West Cowes 13.10.1854 7.3.1855 17.5.1855 BU 7.1864
Jasper     J & R White, West Cowes 13.10.1854 2.4.1855 7.5.1855 grounded 23.7.1855
Hind     John Jenkins Thompson, Rotherhithe 18.10.1854 3.5.1855 4.6.1855 BU 10.1872
Jackdaw     John Jenkins Thompson, Rotherhithe 18.10.1854 18.5.1855 7.6.1855 cooking depot 1868
Thistle     W & H Pitcher, Northfleet 25.10.1854 3.2.1855 7.4.1855 BU 11.1863
Starling     W & H Pitcher, Northfleet 28.10.1854 1.2.1855 7.4.1855 sold 12.1871
Snap     W & H Pitcher, Northfleet 3.11.1854 3.2.1855 7.4.1855 sold 1868
Redwing     W & H Pitcher, Northfleet 3.11.1854 19.3.1855 11.4.1855 tender 1857
Weazel     W & H Pitcher, Northfleet 3.11.1854 19.3.1855 14.4.1855 sold 11.1869
Clinker     W & H Pitcher, Northfleet 4.12.1854 2.4.1855 21.4.1855 sold 6.1871
Cracker     W & H Pitcher, Northfleet 16.12.1854 2.4.1855 21.4.1855 BU 4.1864
Boxer     W & H Pitcher, Northfleet 5.1.1855 7.4.1855 27.4.1855 BU 10.1865
Stork     W & H Pitcher, Northfleet 19.1.1855 7.4.1855 20.5.1855 coal hulk 1874
Skylark     W & H Pitcher, Northfleet 19.1.1855 3.5.1855 25.5.1855 gunnery tender 1884
Biter     W & H Pitcher, Northfleet 5.2.1855 5.5.1855 25.5.1855 coal hulk 4.1865
Swinger     W & H Pitcher, Northfleet 5.2.1855 10.5.1855 7.6.1855 BU 9.1864

 

Displacement normal, t

284

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

32.3 pp

Breadth, m

6.71

Draught, m

2.06

No of shafts

1

Machinery

Lark, Magpie, Grinder, Jasper, Hind, Jackadaw, Redwing, Cracker, Stork, Swinger: sails + 3 cylindrical boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE

Dapper, Fancy, Thistle, Starling, Snap, Weazel, Clinker, Boxer, Skylark, Biter: sails + 2 cylindrical boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE, trunk

Power, h. p.

270ihp

Max speed, kts

7.5

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 1 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 2 x 1 - 148/8 24pdr SBML howitzers

Complement

36

Project history: Wooden-hulled 'Crimean' gunboats. W. H. Walker design of 1854.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Magpie wrecked in Galway Bay 8.4.1864. Jasper grounded in action at Taganrog (Sea of Azov) 23.7.1855.

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