BRISK screw sloop (1853)

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Brisk			Woolwich DYd	1.1849	2.6.1851	24.8.1853	sold 1.1870

Displacement normal, t	1474
Displacement full, t
Length, m	59.0 pp
Breadth, m	10.7
Draught, m	4.19 mean
No of shafts	1
Machinery	sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE
Power, h. p.	505ihp
Max speed, kts	7.4
Fuel, t	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 206/14 68pdr 87cwt shell SBML, 12 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML
Complement	170

14-gun wooden-hulled sloop, reclassed as corvette in 1862. Committee of Reference design of 1847, enlarged Rattler.

1864: re-engined with 1 2-cel HSE (837ihp, 10kts)

No significant events.