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TEAZER screw gunvessel (1848)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Teazer     Chatham DYd 6.8.1845 25.6.1846 21.12.1848 sold 6.1862

 

Displacement normal, t

192

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

39.6 pp

Breadth, m

6.71

Draught, m

2.79 hold depth

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE, oscillating

Power, h. p.

175ihp

Max speed, kts

6.3

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 254/11 10'' 86cwt SBML

Complement

60

Project history: Wooden-hulled 2nd class gunvessel. Sir William Symonds design, approved in 1845. Similar to iron-hulled Minx but with fuller stern section. Boxer and Biter were ordered in 1846 but cancelled in 1849.

Modernizations: 1848: re-engined with 1 2-cyl VSE, oscillating (128ihp, 7.7kts)

Naval service: No significant events.

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