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ENTERPRISE wooden screw sloops (1876-1879)

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
  

Displacement normal, t

1375

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

56.4 pp

Breadth, m

10.7

Draught, m

4.35 mean

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 HCRCR, 8 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

700 - 800

Max speed, kts

10 - 11

Fuel, t

coal 130 - 150

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 279/15 Dahlgren SB, 4 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 135/21 60pdr Parrott RML

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