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RACER sailing brigs (1833-1853)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Harlequin     Pembroke DYd 11.1832 18.3.1836 25.10.1836 coal depot 7.1859
Racer     Portsmouth DYd 9.1832 18.7.1833 5.9.1833 sold 9.1852
Ringdove     Plymouth DYd 10.1832 18.6.1833 7.2.1834 BU 8.1850
Wanderer     Chatham DYd 2.1833 10.7.1835 22.8.1835 BU 3.1850
Wolverene     Chatham DYd 2.1833 13.10.1836 1.12.1836 wrecked 11.8.1855
Sappho     Plymouth DYd 12.1834 3.2.1837 10.5.1837 lost 2.1858
Lily     Pembroke DYd 12.1835 28.9.1837 12.3.1838 coal depot 1860
Liberty (ex-Hearty)     Pembroke DYd 9.1848 11.6.1850 18.8.1850 TS, tender 5.1866
Squirrel     Pembroke DYd 9.1850 8.8.1853 24.8.1853 TS, tender 5.1862

 

Displacement normal, t

428bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

30.6 gundeck

Breadth, m

9.86

Draught, m

4.67 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

14  x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 107/16 9pdr SBML or 2 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr SBML

Complement

110

Project history: 16-gun brigs. William Symonds design of 1832, dockyard-built version of Snake class with slightly modified lines. Wooden hull.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Wolverene wrecked on the Courtown Bank off Greytown, Mosquito Coast 11.8.1855. Sappho disappeared off South Australia while en route from the Cape of Good Hope to Sydney, presumably foundered with all hands in February 1858.

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