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BRITOMART screw gunboats (1860-1876)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Britomart     T & Wm Smith, North Shields 11.11.1859 7.5.1860 3.1.1861 sold 1.1892
Cockatrice     T & Wm Smith, North Shields 11.11.1859 24.5.1860 7.4.1861 luggage lighter 1882
Wizard     T & Wm Smith, North Shields 11.11.1859 3.8.1860 3.1.1861 BU 9.1878
Speedy     C Lamport, Workington 11.11.1859 18.7.1860 2.9.1861 tender 1865
Doterel     Wm Cowley Miller, Toxteth Dock, Liverpool 15.11.1859 5.7.1860 1861? sold 6.1871
Heron     Wm Cowley Miller, Toxteth Dock, Liverpool 15.11.1859 5.7.1860 4.6.1862 tender 1875
Pigeon     Briggs & Co, Sunderland 10.11.1859 7.6.1860 1860 BU 9.1876
Linnet     Briggs & Co, Sunderland 18.11.1859 7.6.1860 1860 BU 7.1872
Tyrian     Courtenay, Newhaven 21.11.1859 7.9.1861 1865 tug 1883
Trinculo     Joseph Banks, Plymouth 1.12.1859 15.9.1860 1865 // --- completed as tender
Cherub     Portsmouth DYd, Haslar Creek, Gosport 3.12.1860 29.3.1865 1865 tender 1879
Netley     Portsmouth DYd, Haslar Creek, Gosport 3.12.1860 22.7.1966 1866 tender 1870
Minstrel     Portsmouth DYd, Haslar Creek, Gosport 17.12.1860 16.2.1865 1865 coal hulk 1874
Orwell     Portsmouth DYd, Haslar Creek, Gosport 24.12.1860 27.12.1866 11.1868 Customs 12.1890
Cromer     Portsmouth DYd, Haslar Creek, Gosport 4.7.1861 20.11.1867 1868 tender 1870
Bruiser     Portsmouth DYd, Haslar Creek, Gosport 14.8.1861 23.4.1867 7.1876 tender 5.1886
Bramble     Portsmouth DYd, Haslar Creek, Gosport 1861 --- --- cancelled 12.1863
Crown     Portsmouth DYd, Haslar Creek, Gosport 1861 --- --- cancelled 12.1863
Protector     Portsmouth DYd, Haslar Creek, Gosport 1861 --- --- cancelled 12.1863


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

330
Displacement full, t

 
Length, m

36.6 pp
Breadth, m

6.71
Draught, m

2.74 hull depth
No of shafts

1 (hoisting)
Machinery

sails + boilers, 1 1-cyl SE, reciprocating
Power, h. p.

260
Max speed, kts9
Fuel, t

coal
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 1 - 206/14 68pdr shell SBML

Heron: Armstring guns
Complement

36 - 40


Project history

Wooden-hulled, design of 1859. Improved version of Dapper. Danube was cancelled before she was laid down. Carried barquentine rig.

Modernizations

1860s, most: were rearmed with 2 x 1 - 160/16 64pdr MLR

Naval service

No significant events.