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ACORN sailing brigs (18, 1838-1853)


Ships


Name

No

Yard No

Builder

Laid down

Launched

Comp

Fate

Grecian

  71

Pembroke DYd

7.1836

24.4.1838

10.12.1838

sold 1865

Fantome     Chatham DYd 5.1837 30.5.1839 30.5.1839 sold 10.1864
Pilot     Plymouth DYd 8.1837 9.6.1838 21.10.1838 sold 1.1862
Acorn     Plymouth DYd 11.1837 15.11.1838 21.3.1839 coal hulk 1861
Arab     Chatham DYd 2.1838 31.3.1847 6.10.1847 Coast Guard 5.1863
Persian   77 Pembroke DYd 5.1838 7.10.1839 28.4.1840 sold 3.1866
Bittern     Portsmouth DYd 3.1838 18.4.1840 17.8.1841 sold 2.1860
Albatross     Portsmouth DYd 7.1838 28.3.1842 14.7.1842 BU 5.1860
Elk     Chatham DYd 11.1846 27.9.1847 6.1856 Coast Guard 5.1863
Heron     Chatham DYd 11.1846 27.9.1847 23.11.1857 foundered 9.5.1859
Mariner   99 Pembroke DYd 5.1845 19.10.1846 15.3.1847 sold 6.1865
Despatch     Chatham DYd 12.1846 25.11.1851 24.12.1851 Coast Guard 5.1863
Martin   93 Pembroke DYd 9.1848 19.9.1850 3.10.1850 TS 5.1890
Kangaroo (ex-Dove)     Chatham DYd 1.4.1850 31.8.1852 28.2.1853 Coast Guard 5.1863
Seaflower   184 Pembroke DYd 1872 25.2.1873 6.1873 // --- completed as tender
Nautilus   195 Pembroke DYd 1878 20.5.1879 1879 // --- completed as tender
Pilot   198 Pembroke DYd 1878 12.11.1879 1879 // --- completed as TS
Martin (ex-Mayflower)   223 Pembroke DYd 1889 20.1.1890 1890 // --- completed as TS


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

481bm

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

32.0 gundeck

Breadth, m

10.2

Draught, m

4.52 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

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

Grecian, Albatross: 16 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML carronades

Fantome, Pilot, Arab, Persian, Bittern, Elk, Heron, Mariner, Martin: 4 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML, 12 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML carronades

Acorn, Despatch: 12 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML carronades

Kangaroo: 4 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML, 8 x 1 - 1659/8 32pdr SBML carronades

Complement

110 - 130



Project history Large series of 16-gun brigs. Last four were built as training brigs. Wooden hull. Modernizations

Large series of 16-gun brigs. Last four were built as training brigs. Wooden hull. Modernizations: None.

Naval service

Heron foundered in tornado off West Africa 9.5.1859.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.