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ARROW screw gunvessels (1854)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Arrow     C J Mare & Co, Blackwall 15.4.1854 26.6.1854 17.8.1854 sold 5.1862
Beagle     C J Mare & Co, Blackwall 15.4.1854 20.7.1854 3.9.1854 sold 7.1863
Lynx     C J Mare & Co, Blackwall 15.4.1854 22.7.1854 14.9.1854 sold 5.1862
Snake     C J Mare & Co, Blackwall 9.5.1854 6.9.1854 4.11.1854 sold 1864
Viper     R & H Green, Blackwall 12.4.1854 23.7.1854 25.9.1854 sold 5.1862
Wrangler     R & H Green, Blackwall 19.4.1854 19.6.1854 2.9.1854 BU 5.1866


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

586

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

48.8 pp

Breadth, m

7.72

Draught, m

3.56

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE

Power, h. p.

Arrow: 594ihp

Snake: 460ihp

Viper: 673ihp

Wrangler: 551ihp

Max speed, kts

Arrow: 11

Snake: 10.3

Viper: 11.9

Wrangler: 10.1

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 4 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML

Complement

65



Project history

Wooden-hulled despatch vessels, reclassed as 2nd class gunvessels in 1856.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.