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NARCISSUS 4th rate sailing frigate


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Narcissus     Devonport DYd 11.1849 --- --- reordered as screw frigate 3.1857


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

1997bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

54.9 gundeck

Breadth, m

15.5

Draught, m

4.83 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p. 
Max speed, kts 
Fuel, t 
Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

10 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML, 22 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 18 x 1 - 161/16 32pdr 45cwt SBML

Complement

500



Project history

50-gun 4th rate 32pdr frigate. Edye and Watts design, approved in 1848. One more ship, Euryalus, was laid down as screw frigate.