Enterprise 1877
| No | Name | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comm | Fate |
| Adams | Boston N Yd | 2/1874 | 24.10.1874 | 21.7.1876 | civilian TS 8.1908 | ||
| Alliance (ex-Huron) | Norfolk N Yd | 1873 | 8.3.1875 | 18.1.1877 | sailing TS 4.1901 | ||
| Enterprise | J W Griffiths, Portsmouth | 1874 | 13.6.1874 | 16.3.1877 | civilian TS 10.1892 | ||
| Nipsic | Washington N Yd | 1874 | 1878 | 11.10.1879 | receiving ship 1892 | ||
| 1920- IX10 | Essex | D McKay, Boston | 1874 | 1875 | 3.10.1876 | TS 1893, Naval Militia TS 1904, TS 1917, Naval Militia TS 8.1927 |
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Displacement normal, t |
1375 |
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Displacement full, t |
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Length, m |
56.4 pp |
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Breadth, m |
10.7 |
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Draught, m |
4.35 mean |
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No of shafts |
1 |
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Machinery |
1 HCRCR, 8 cylindrical boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
700 - 800 |
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Max speed, kts |
10 - 11 |
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Fuel, t |
coal 130 - 150 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
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Armament |
1 x 1 - 279/15 Dahlgren SB, 4 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 135/21 60pdr Parrott RML |
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Complement |
178 - 193 |
Project history: Barque-rigged steamers, whose long life is somewhat deceptive.
Modernizations: 1887, Alliance, Enterprise, Nipsic, Essex: were armed with 4 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 203/18 Dahlgren (converted) RML, 1 x 1 - 135/21 60pdr Parrott RML, 2 - 4 small guns
1887, Adams: was armed with 4 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 203/18 150pdr Parrott RML, 1 x 1 - 135/21 60pdr Parrott RML, 2 - 4 small guns
Naval service: Adams was a training and station ship from 1907, Alliance had her engines removed as a store ship in 1904, Enterprise was a training ship from 1892, and Essex also for most of her career from 1893. Nipsic was thrown on the beach in the Calliope typhoon in Apia Harbour 16.3.1889 and was repaired, but from 1892 she was receiving and prison ship at Puget Sound. Mohican was a training ship 1898-1904, then station ship at Olongapo and from 1910 to 1921 receiving ship at Cavite, serving also as a stationary submarine tender to the end of 1915.
© Ivan Gogin, 2014