NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Beagle			Portsmouth DYd	14.5.1888	28.2.1889	9.1889	sold to BU 7.1905
Basilisk			Sheerness DYd	1.5.1888	6.4.1889	12.1889	coal hulk 1905

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1170
Displacement full, t
Length, m	59.4 pp
Breadth, m	8.53
Draught, m	3.81
No of shafts	2
Machinery	sails + 2 3-cyl HTE, boilers
Power, h. p.	2000
Max speed, kts	14.5
Fuel, t	coal 180
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000(10)
Armour, mm	steel; deck: 37-25
Armament	8 x 1 - 127/25 BL Mk I/II/III/IV/V, 4 x 4 - 25/40 Nordenfelt Mk I, 4 x 5 - 11.4/78
Complement	138

Standard scale images

Project history

This class was the first steel-sheathed version of the composite-hulled Nymphe class, and with the same dimensions. Both were schooner-rigged. Two guns were mounted forward on either beam, forward of the foremast, and four guns were mounted amidships, two on either side, abaft the funnel and mainmast. Two guns were also mounted on the poop deck. Machine guns were two 11.43mm and four 25mm Nordenfelds, and two 11.43mm Gardners. The steel hulls were copper-sheathed from the waterline downwards.

Ship protection

Ships had a protective deck of 25mm to 38mm steel extending over the machinery and boilers.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.