NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Star			Woolwich DYd	9.1834	29.4.1835	18.6.1835 // ---	completed as packet brig
Ranger			Bottomley, Bermondsey	9.1834	25.7.1835	7.12.1835 // ---	completed as packet brig
Linnet			Joseph White, Cowes	9.1834	27.7.1835	5.11.1835 // ---	completed as packet brig
Alert			Bottomley, Bermondsey	9.1834	24.9.1835	20.1.1836 // ---	completed as packet brig
Express			Colson, Deptford	9.1834	8.10.1835	9.3.1836 // ---	completed as packet brig
Swift			Colson, Deptford	9.1834	21.11.1835	26.4.1836 // ---	completed as packet brig
Penguin			Pembroke DYd	11.1836	10.4.1838	21.9.1838 // ---	completed as packet brig
Peterel			Pembroke DYd	4.1837	23.5.1838	3.10.1838 // ---	completed as packet brig
Crane			Woolwich DYd	1.1838	28.5.1839	6.10.1839 // ---	completed as packet brig
Ferret			Plymouth DYd	4.1838	1.6.1840	24.11.1840 // ---	completed as packet brig
Cygnet			Woolwich DYd	5.1838	6.4.1840	4.9.1840 // ---	completed as packet brig
Philomel			Plymouth DYd	4.1840	28.3.1842	16.7.1842 // ---	completed as survey vessel
Heroine			Woolwich DYd	5.1840	16.8.1841	11.12.1841 // ---	completed as packet brig
Hound			Deptford DYd	2.7.1845	23.5.1846	27.8.1846 // ---	completed as packet brig

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	358bm
Displacement full, t
Length, m	29.0 gundeck
Breadth, m	9.22
Draught, m	4.11 - 4.52 hold depth
No of shafts
Machinery	sails
Power, h. p.
Max speed, kts
Fuel, t
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	4 x 1 - 116/8 12pdr SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 93/16 6pdr SBML
Complement	110

Project history 6.

8-gun brigs. William Symonds design of 1834. Dispatch, Dove, Mariner and Martin were reordered as Acorn class.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.