| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Coquette | R & H Green, Blackwall | 18.5.1855 | 25.10.1855 | 8.3.1856 | BU 1868 | ||
| Wanderer | R & H Green, Blackwall | 18.5.1855 | 22.11.1855 | 19.3.1856 | BU 8.1866 | ||
| Alacrity | C J Mare & Co, Blackwall | 21.5.1855 | 20.3.1856 | 20.4.1856 | sold 10.1864 | ||
| Vigilant | C J Mare & Co, Blackwall | 21.5.1855 | 20.3.1856 | 20.8.1856 | sold 2.1869 | ||
| Lapwing | J & R White, West Cowes | 30.7.1855 | 26.1.1856 | 31.5.1856 | sold 1864 | ||
| Ringdove | J & R White, West Cowes | 30.7.1855 | 22.2.1856 | 31.5.1856 | sold 6.1865 | ||
| Surprise | Money Wigram & Son, Blackwall | 30.7.1855 | 6.3.1856 | 12.4.1856 | BU 11.1866 | ||
| Renard | C J Mare & Co, Blackwall | 1.8.1855 | 24.4.1856 | 12.10.1859 | BU 3.1866 | ||
| Foxhound | C J Mare & Co, Blackwall | 1.8.1855 | 16.8.1856 | 6.10.1860 | BU 8.1866 | ||
| Mohawk | Young, Magnay & Co, Limehouse | 6.8.1855 | 11.1.1856 | 23.3.1856 | to Chinese Custom 9.1862 (Peking) | ||
| Sparrowhawk | Young, Magnay & Co, Limehouse | 6.8.1855 | 9.2.1856 | 7.4.1856 | sold 1872 | ||
| Osprey | Fletcher & Fearnall, Limehouse | 2.8.1855 | 22.3.1856 | 30.7.1856 | wrecked 30.5.1867 | ||
| Cormorant | Fletcher & Fearnall, Limehouse | 9.8.1855 | 19.5.1856 | 20.6.1856 | sunk 28.6.1859 | ||
| Assurance | R & H Green, Blackwall | 26.8.1855 | 13.3.1856 | 16.4.1856 | sold 3.1870 |
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Displacement normal, t |
860 |
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Displacement full, t |
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Length, m |
54.9 pp |
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Breadth, m |
8.64 |
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Draught, m |
4.27 hold depth |
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No of shafts |
1 |
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Machinery |
sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE |
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Power, h. p. |
Coquette: 690ihp Wanderer: 707ihp Alacrity: 724ihp Vigilant: 630ihp Lapwing: 689ihp Ringdove: 677ihp Surprise: 778ihp Foxhound: 600ihp Mohawk: 642ihp Sparrowhawk: 726ihp Osprey: 593ihp Cormorant: 727ihp Assurance: 745ihp |
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Max speed, kts |
Coquette, Alacrity: 10.9 Wanderer, Mohawk: 10.7 Vigilant: 9.8 Lapwing: 11 Ringdove: 10.8 Surprise, Sparrowhawk, Assurance: 11.1 Foxhound: 11.6 Osprey: 10.2 Cormorant: 11.2 |
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Fuel, t |
coal |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
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Armament |
1 x 1 - 183/14 7'' 110pdr BL, 1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 100/21 20pdr 16cwt BL |
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Complement |
80 |
Project history: Wooden-hulled 2nd class despatch/gunvessels, design was approved in 1855. Enlarged Arrow class. Four more units were ordered but never built. Most were rerated as sloops in 1859-1860 but all were reverted to gunvessels in 1862.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: Osprey wrecked in the SE African coast near Klippen Point 30.5.1867. Cormorant was sunk in action with the Taku forts in Peiho River (China) 28.6.1859.
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