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Constance 1860s

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Constance			Pembroke DYd	10.1843	12.3.1846	28.6.1846	screw frigate 1862, sold 1.1875
Arethusa			Pembroke DYd	30.3.1846	20.6.1849	20.3.1850	screw frigate 1861, TS 1874
Octavia			Pembroke DYd	9.1846	18.8.1849	17.10.1849	screw frigate 1861, BU 2.1876
Sutlej			Pembroke DYd	8.1847	17.4.1855	---	completed as screw frigate 1862

Technical data

Data variant	sailing	screw
Displacement normal, t	2126bm	3832
Displacement full, t
Length, m	54.9 gundeck	77.0 - 77.4 gundeck
Breadth, m	16.1	16.1
Draught, m	4.95 hold depth	7.26
No of shafts		1
Machinery	sails	Octavia: sails + 1 2-cyl HSE Constance: sails + 1 6-cyl HC Arethusa: sails + 1 2-cyl HSE, trunked
Power, h. p.		Octavia: 2415ihp Arethusa: 3165ihp Constance: 2301ihp
Max speed, kts		Octavia: 11.5 Arethusa: 11.7 Constance: 10.8
Fuel, t		coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	28 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 22 x 1 - 161/16 32pdr 45cwt SBML	1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 8 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML, 42 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML
Complement	450	320

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Project history

50-gun 4th rate 32pdr frigates. Sir William Symonds design of 1843. One more ship, Liffey, was ordered but reordered in 1851 before the kiel was laid down.

Modernizations

1850s, all: - 10 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt; + 10 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML

1861, Octavia, Arethusa; 1862, Constance: were converted to screw frigates with data as given in the table

by 1868, all: were armed with 4 x 1 - 178/18 7'' 6½ton shell SBML, 24 x 1 - 160/16 64pdr 64cwt SBML

Naval service

No significant events.