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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

OTHER FIGHTING SHIPS

LIZARD paddle gunvessels (1840)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Lizard     Woolwich DYd 7.1839 7.1.1840 22.5.1840 collision 24.7.1843
Locust     Woolwich DYd 7.1839 18.4.1840 30.11.1840 tug 2.1863

 

Displacement normal, t

283bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

36.6 pp

Breadth, m

6.91

Draught, m

3.96 hold depth

No of shafts

side wheels

Machinery

sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl side lever engine

Power, h. p.

100nhp

Locust: 100nhp 157ihp

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr 22cwt SBML, 2 x 1 - 138/13 18pdr 15cwt SBML

Complement

60

Project history: 5th class steam vessels, since 1844 2nd class gunvessels. Symonds design, approved in 1839.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Lizard was lost in collision with French armed paddle sloop Véloce between Gibraltar and Cadiz 24.7.1843.

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