PYLADES 6th rate screw corvette (1855)

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Pylades			Sheerness DYd	9.5.1853	23.11.1854	29.3.1855	sold 1.1875

Displacement normal, t	1956
Displacement full, t
Length, m	58.8 pp
Breadth, m	11.7
Draught, m	5.79
No of shafts	1
Machinery	sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE, trunk
Power, h. p.	1106ihp
Max speed, kts	10.1
Fuel, t	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 20 x 1 - 204/10 8'' 42cwt shell SBML
Complement

21-gun 1st class corvette. Wooden hull. Surveyor's Department design of 1852. Development of Highflyer.

1868: reduced to 17 guns.

No significant events.