NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Juno			Deptford DYd	1866	28.11.1867	5.1868	sold 12.1887
Thalia			Woolwich DYd	1866	14.7.1869	3.1870	troopship 10.1886

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	2216
Displacement full, t
Length, m	61.0 pp
Breadth, m	12.3
Draught, m	5.05
No of shafts	1
Machinery	sails + 1 2-cyl HSE, 4 boilers
Power, h. p.	Juno: 1090 Thalia: 1597
Max speed, kts	Juno: 10.5 Thalia: 11.1
Fuel, t	coal 230
Endurance, nm(kts)	2350(10)
Armament	2 x 1 - 178/16 MLR Mk III, 4 x 1 - 160/16 64pdr 71cwt MLR
Complement	200

Project history

Designed by Sir Edward Reed, Surveyor to the Navy 1863-70. Both vessels were designed primarily for carrying troops. The soldiers were berthed on the lower deck, and the sailors on the upper deck. In design they resembled the spar-decked corvette Challenger (launched 1855), the type of construction consisting of a light deck in the form of a wooden grill supported on stanchions above the upper deck and forecastle deck. They were ship-rigged, and each vessel had a telescopic funnel. Thalia was the last ship to be built in the historicWoolwich Royal Dockyard, wliich was then closed down.

Modernizations

1876, Juno: - 2 x 1 - 178/16; + 4 x 1 - 160/16 64pdr 71cwt MLR

1876, Thalia: - 2 x 1 - 178/16; + 2 x 1 - 160/16 64pdr 71cwt MLR

Naval service

No significant events.