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SNAKE sailing brigs (1832)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Snake     Fletcher & Fearnall, Limehouse 12.1831 3.5.1832 4.8.1832 wrecked 29.8.1847
Serpent     Fletcher & Fearnall, Limehouse 2.1832 14.7.1832 6.12.1832 tender 12.1857

 

Displacement normal, t

418bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

31.0 gundeck

Breadth, m

9.75

Draught, m

4.59 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

Complement

110

Project history: 16-gun brigs. Thomas Ditchburn design of 1831.

Modernizations: 1846, both: - 4 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML, 2 x 1 - 107/16 9pdr SBML; + 2 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr SBML

Naval service: Snake wrecked in the Mozambique Channel 29.8.1847.

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