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MINX screw gunvessel (1854)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Minx     Miller, Ravenhill & Co, Blackwall 5.9.1845 5.9.1846 4.6.1854 water tanker 1859


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

250

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

39.6 pp

Breadth, m

6.71

Draught, m

2.79 hold depth

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE, oscillating

Power, h. p.

36ihp

Max speed, kts5.4
Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 254/11 10'' 86cwt SBML

Complement60


Project history

Iron-hulled 2nd class gunvessel, Sir William Symonds design, approved in 1845. Half-sister to wooden Teazer. In 1846 Minx received 234ihp 2-cyl VSE, oscillating, giving her 9.1kts speed but in 1849, before the completion, it was replaced by much weaker HSE.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.