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GLEANER screw gunboats (1854-1855)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Pelter     W & H Pitcher, Northfleet 29.6.1854 28.8.1854 20.10.1854 sold 1.1864
Pincher     W & H Pitcher, Northfleet 29.6.1854 5.9.1854 28.3.1855 BU 2.1864
Badger (ex-Ranger)     W & H Pitcher, Northfleet 6.1854 23.9.1854 26.3.1855 BU 6.1864
Snapper     W & H Pitcher, Northfleet 6.1854 4.10.1854 27.3.1855 coal hulk 1865
Gleaner     Deptford DYd 29.6.1854 7.10.1854 28.3.1855 sold 4.1868
Ruby     Deptford DYd 29.6.1854 7.10.1854 8.3.1855 BU 10.1868

 

Displacement normal, t

290

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

30.5 pp

Breadth, m

6.71

Draught, m

2.39 hold depth

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 2 cylindrical boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE, trunk

Power, h. p.

Pincher, Badger: 215ihp

Max speed, kts

 

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. Carried a light schooner rig.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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