NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Fenella			W & H Pitcher, Northfleet	5.3.1856	19.5.1856	26.1.1857	dredger 3.1867
Garnet			W & H Pitcher, Northfleet	5.3.1856	31.5.1856	26.1.1857	BU 5.1864
Handy			W & H Pitcher, Northfleet	5.3.1856	31.5.1856	26.1.1857	sold 5.1868
Hunter			W & H Pitcher, Northfleet	12.3.1856	7.6.1856	26.1.1857	sold 1884
Drake			Pembroke DYd	1.1856	8.3.1856	31.5.1856	sold 2.1869
Janus			Pembroke DYd	25.1.1856	8.3.1856	31.5.1856	coal lighter 12.1869
Clown			Wm Cowley Miller, Toxteth Dock, Liverpool	14.1.1856	20.5.1856	4.5.1857	coal lighter 1867
Kestrel			Wm Cowley Miller, Toxteth Dock, Liverpool	14.1.1856	26.5.1856	4.5.1857	sold 16.3.1866
Ready			Briggs & Co, Sunderland	2.1856	12.5.1856	29.4.1857	BU 1.1864
Thrush			Briggs & Co, Sunderland	2.1856	12.5.1856	29.4.1857	BU 3.1864
Watchful			T & Wm Smith, North Shields	25.2.1856	4.6.1856	11.4.1857	tender 1863
Woodcock			T & Wm Smith, North Shields	25.2.1856	6.6.1856	11.4.1857	sold 2.1871

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	249
Displacement full, t
Length, m	33.5 pp
Breadth, m	6.65
Draught, m	1.22
No of shafts	1
Machinery	sails + 2 cylindrical boilers, 1 1-cyl HSE direct-acting
Power, h. p.	Woodcock: 145ihp
Max speed, kts	Woodcock: 7.5
Fuel, t	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 1 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML
Complement	30

Project history

Wooden-hulled gunboats. Improved Cheerful.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Hunter was never completed for sea and sent to the sale list in June 1869 but was sold only in 1884. Kestrel sunk at the Peiho forts in June 1859 but was salved.