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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

OTHER FIGHTING SHIPS

HELENA sailing brigs (1841-1853)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Siren     Woolwich DYd 6.1839 23.4.1841 30.10.1841 target ship 3.1862
Helena     Pembroke DYd 9.1839 11.7.1843 23.12.1843 coal hulk 1861
Jumna (ex-Zebra)     Bombay DYd 12.1843 7.3.1848 12.4.1848 sold 6.1862
Atalanta     Pembroke DYd 10.1846 9.10.1847 20.12.1847 BU 12.1868
Camilla     Pembroke DYd 10.1846 8.9.1847 20.12.1847 lost 9.9.1860
Musquito     Pembroke DYd 5.1849 29.7.1851 25.8.1851 to Prussia 7.1862 (Musquito)
Rover     Pembroke DYd 9.1850 21.6.1853 2.7.1853 to Prussia 7.1862 (Rover)

 

Displacement normal, t

549bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

33.5 gundeck

Breadth, m

10.6

Draught, m

4.52 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

16 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML carronades

Complement

140

Project history: 16-gun 1st class brigs. Sir William Symonds design of 1839. Wooden hull.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Camilla was lost off Japan, presumed foundered in a typhoon 9.9.1860.

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