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MV23 mortar vessels (1856)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
MV.23     Charles Lungley, Rotherhithe 9.10.1855 24.4.1856 1856 mooring lighter 3.1865
MV.24     Charles Lungley, Rotherhithe 9.10.1855 24.4.1856 1856 revenue vessel 3.1861
MV.25     Charles Lungley, Rotherhithe 9.10.1855 22.4.1856 1856 mooring lighter 1862
MV.26     Charles Lungley, Rotherhithe 9.10.1855 22.4.1856 1856 mooring lighter 10.1862
MV.27     Charles Lungley, Rotherhithe 9.10.1855 22.5.1856 1856 mooring lighter 11.1857
MV.28     Charles Lungley, Rotherhithe 9.10.1855 22.5.1856 1856 Coast Guard 1864
MV.29     John Jenkins Thompson, Rotherhithe 9.10.1855 3.5.1856 1856 Coast Guard 5.1863
MV.30     John Jenkins Thompson, Rotherhithe 9.10.1855 19.7.1856 1856 coal pontoon 4.1868
MV.31     John Jenkins Thompson, Rotherhithe 9.10.1855 6.10.1856 1856 Coast Guard 1864
MV.32     John Jenkins Thompson, Rotherhithe 9.10.1855 3.9.1856 1856 BU 5.1860
MV.33     John Jenkins Thompson, Rotherhithe 9.10.1855 15.11.1856 1856 harbour craft 11.1856
MV.34     John Jenkins Thompson, Rotherhithe 9.10.1855 1.11.1856 1856 harbour craft 11.1856
MV.35     Hoad Brothers, Rye 15.10.1855 25.2.1856 1856 BU 10.1865
MV.36     Hoad Brothers, Rye 15.10.1855 25.3.1856 1856 BU 9.1865
MV.37     George Inman, Lymington 15.10.1855 22.3.1856 1856 harbour craft 1864
MV.38     Scott & Long, Greenock 16.10.1855 23.2.1856 1856 Coast Guard 5.1864
MV.39     Scott & Long, Greenock 16.10.1855 8.3.1856 1856 Coast Guard 1866
MV.40     Scott & Long, Greenock 29.10.1855 8.4.1856 1856 BU 7.1867
MV.41     Scott & Long, Greenock 8.11.1855 22.4.1856 1856 Coast Guard 7.1863
MV.42     Scott & Long, Greenock 3.12.1855 16.6.1856 1856 Coast Guard 6.1867
MV.43     Scott & Long, Greenock 7.12.1855 23.6.1856 1856 Coast Guard 2.1864
MV.44     Hassall & Holmes, Rye 15.10.1855 11.3.1856 1856 Coast Guard 1866
MV.45     Thomas Harvey, Ipswich 12.10.1855 21.3.1856 1856 Coast Guard 1866
MV.46     Thomas Harvey, Ipswich 12.10.1855 22.4.1856 1856 Coast Guard 5.1863
MV.47     Thomas Harvey, Wivenhoe 12.10.1855 7.4.1856 1856 bathing hulk 7.1866
MV.48     Thomas Harvey, Wivenhoe 12.10.1855 28.5.1856 1856 mooring lighter 10.1862
MV.49     William Patterson & Son, Bristol 15.10.1855 28.2.1856 1856 Coast Guard 1864
MV.50     William Patterson & Son, Bristol 15.10.1855 5.4.1856 1856 Coast Guard 1864
MV.51     William Patterson & Son, Bristol 15.10.1855 18.6.1856 1856 Coast Guard 1864
MV.52     William Patterson & Son, Bristol 8.11.1855 14.7.1856 1856 Coast Guard 2.1864
MV.53     Briggs & Co, Sunderland 1.1856 24.3.1856 1856 BU 8.1865
MV.54     Briggs & Co, Sunderland 1.1856 24.3.1856 1856 harbour craft 1866
MV.55     J & R White, East Cowes 15.12.1855 15.6.1856 1856 Coast Guard 10.1865
MV.56     J & R White, East Cowes 15.12.1855 21.6.1856 1856 Coast Guard 10.1864


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

166bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

22.9 gundeck

Breadth, m

7.11

Draught, m

2.84 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p. 
Max speed, kts 
Fuel, t 
Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 330/3 SBML mortar

Complement 


Project history

Mortar vessels of 75ft type.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.