NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Comet, 10.1832- Comus			Pembroke DYd	10.1826	14.8.1828	28.2.1829	BU 5.1862
Lightning, 9.1832- Larne			Pembroke DYd	7.1828	2.6.1829	16.9.1829	BU 3.1866
Electra			Portsmouth DYd	2.1830	28.9.1837	17.2.1838	sold 2.1862

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	459bm
Displacement full, t
Length, m	34.5 gundeck
Breadth, m	9.40
Draught, m	2.44 hold depth
No of shafts
Machinery	sails
Power, h. p.
Max speed, kts
Fuel, t
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	16 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 93/16 6pdr SBML
Complement	125

Project history

18-gun flush-decked sloops. Longer 1823 design by Professor Inman. Electra was originally ordered as one of the Fly class.

Modernizations

1840s, Comus: - 2 x 1 - 93/16 6pdr SBML; + 2 x 1 - 107/16 9pdr SBML

1840s, Electra: - 2 x 1 - 93/16 6pdr SBML; + 2 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr SBML

1846, Electra, 1848, Comus, Larne: - 4 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML

Naval service

No significant events.