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WATERWITCH sailing brig (1835)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Waterwitch     Joseph White, East Cowes   15.11.1834 25.3.1835 sold 11.1861

 

Displacement normal, t

324bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

27.6 gundeck

Breadth, m

8.94

Draught, m

3.86 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

8 x 1 - 139/8 18pdr SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 93/16 6pdr SBML

Complement

60

Project history: 10-gun brig. Design by Joseph White, developed from yacht Louisa of 1828. Ordered as yacht for Duke of Belfast, purchased on the stocks in 1834.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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