NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Niger			Woolwich DYd	5.1845	18.11.1846	16.8.1850	sold 12.1869
Florentia			Woolwich DYd	1846	---	---	cancelled 5.1849

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1454
Displacement full, t
Length, m	57.9 pp
Breadth, m	10.1
Draught, m	4.24 mean
No of shafts	1
Machinery	sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE, trunk
Power, h. p.	673ihp
Max speed, kts	10.3
Fuel, t	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	(1 x 1 - 254/11 10'' 85cwt shell SBML, 4 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML, 1 x 1 - 194/16 56pdr 87cwt SBML, 2 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr 17cwt SBML) or (4 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 194/16 56pdr 85cwt SBML, 2 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML)
Complement	145

Project history

8 (later 14-gun) wooden-hulled sloop, reclassed as corvette in 1862. John Fincham design, 1844.

Modernizations

1850: rearmed with 12 guns

1856: armed with 14 32pdr MLSB guns.

Naval service

No significant events.