NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Flying Fish			Pembroke DYd	6.1855	20.12.1855	29.1.1856	BU 8.1866
Pioneer			Pembroke DYd	7.1855	19.1.1856	31.5.1856	sold 10.1864
Victor			Money Wigram & Son, Blackwall	24.5.1855	2.11.1855	1.4.1856	sold 11.1863, later Confederacy Rappahannock
Intrepid			Money Wigram & Son, Blackwall	24.5.1855	13.11.1855	4.4.1856	sold 10.1864
Roebuck			J Scott Russell, Millwall	1.8.1855	22.3.1856	25.8.1857	sold 1864
Nimrod			J Scott Russell, Millwall	1.8.1855	21.4.1856	23.2.1857	sold 6.1865

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1042
Displacement full, t
Length, m	61.0 pp
Breadth, m	9.25
Draught, m	3.81 full load
No of shafts	1
Machinery	sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE
Power, h. p.	Flying Fish: 1302ihp Pioneer: 1150ihp Victor: 1166ihp Intrepid: 930ihp Roebuck: 1099ihp
Max speed, kts	Flying Fish, Victor: 11.6 Pioneer: 11.3 Intrepid: 10.4 Roebuck: 11.4 Nimrod: 8.8
Fuel, t	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 4 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML
Complement	100

Project history

Wooden-hulled 1st class despatch/gunvessels, design was approved in 1855. Flying Fish and Pioneer were 'built on the diagonal principle'. Two more ships were ordered but not built. In 1859 all (Pioneer in 1860) were rerated as sloops, but reverted to gunvessels in 1862.

Modernizations

~1860, all: were rearmed with 1 x 1 - 183/14 7'' 110pdr BL, 1 x 1 - 126/21 40pdr BL, 4 x 1 - 100/21 20pdr BL

Naval service

No significant events.