NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Ariadne			Deptford DYd	1.8.1856	4.6.1859	16.12.1859	TS 1880
Galatea			Woolwich DYd	2.2.1857	14.9.1859	2.1862	BU 6.1883
Acasta			Deptford DYd	16.4.1861	---	---	cancelled 12.1863

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	Ariadne: 4583 Galatea: 4686
Displacement full, t
Length, m	85.3 pp
Breadth, m	15.2
Draught, m	5.89 hold depth
No of shafts	1
Machinery	Ariadne, Acasta: sails + rectangular boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE Galatea: sails + rectangular boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE, trunk
Power, h. p.	Ariadne: 3350ihp Galatea: 3061ihp
Max speed, kts	Ariadne: 13.1 Galatea: 11.8
Fuel, t	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	24 x 1 - 254/11 10'' 85cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML
Complement	450

Standard scale images

Project history

26-gun frigates, originally corvettes. Surveyor's Department design, approved in 1856. Sister-ship Hyperion was ordered in 1861 but cancelled in 1863. Wooden hull.

Modernizations

early 1860s, both: - 2 x 1 - 204/13; + 2 x 1 - 183/14 110pdr Armstrong BL

Naval service

No significant events.