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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Birkenhead (ex-Vulcan)			John Laird, Sons & Co, Birkenhead	9.1843	30.12.1845	17.1.1847	troopship 1851

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1918
Displacement full, t
Length, m	64.0 pp
Breadth, m	11.4
Draught, m	6.99 hold depth
No of shafts	2 side wheels
Machinery	sails + tubular boilers, 1 4-cyl HSE
Power, h. p.	536nhp
Max speed, kts	12-13
Fuel, t	coal 500
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 254/11 10'' 84cwt shell SBML, 4 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 64cwt SBML
Complement	250

Project history

2nd class iron-hulled frigate. Laird's design, approved in 1843. Original brig rig was rapidly altered to barquentine. Approved in 1846 to be fitted as troopship as a result of official unease about iron as a material for fighting ships.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.