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CAMELION screw sloops (1861-1866)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Camelion     Deptford DYd 8.11.1858 23.2.1860 30.7.1861 sold 1883
Pelican     Pembroke DYd 16.6.1859 19.7.1860 25.9.1861 sold 2.1867, later to Portugal (Infanta Dom Henrique)
Rinaldo     Portsmouth DYd 1.3.1858 26.3.1860 8.6.1861 sold 4.1884
Zebra     Deptford DYd 4.7.1859 13.11.1860 23.5.1861 sold 8.1873
Perseus     Pembroke DYd 20.7.1860 21.8.1861 9.1862 TS 1886
Chanticleer     Portsmouth DYd 2.2.1860 9.2.1861 12.1861 sold 1.1875
Reindeer     Chatham DYd 1.5.1860 29.3.1866 10.1866 BU 12.1876
Rattler     Deptford DYd 28.8.1860 18.3.1862 7.1862 wrecked 24.9.1868
Harlequin     Portsmouth DYd 13.2.1861 --- --- cancelled 12.1864
Tees     Chatham DYd 2.1861 --- --- cancelled 12.1863
Sappho     Deptford DYd 1.5.1861 --- --- cancelled 12.1863
Trent     Pembroke DYd 3.9.1861 --- --- completed as ironclad Research
Circassian     Deptford DYd 5.5.1862 --- --- completed as ironclad Enterprise
Diligence     Chatham DYd 1862 --- --- cancelled 12.1863


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

1365
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

56.4 pp
Breadth, m

10.1
Draught, m

4.75
No of shafts

1
Machinery

Camelion, Pelican, Rinaldo, Zebra, Chanticleer, Rattler, Harlequin, Tees, Sappho, Trent, Circassian, Diligence: sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE

Perseus, Reindeer: sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE
Power, h. p.

Camelion: 678ihp

Pelican: 671ihp

Rinaldo: 752ihp

Zebra: 772ihp

Perseus: 614ihp

Chanticleer: 694ihp

Reindeer: 722ihp

Rattler: 843ihp
Max speed, kts

Camelion, Pelican, Reindeer, Rattler: 10

Rinaldo: 10.6

Zebra: 9.9

Perseus, Chanticleer: 10.1
Fuel, t

coal
Endurance, nm(kts)

 
Armament

5 x 1 - 126/23 - 40pdr 58cwt BL, 12 x 1 - 160/13 32pdr 32cwt MLSB

Reindeer: 1 x 1 - 183/14 110pdr 82cwt BL, 5 x 1 - 160/16 64pdr SBML
Complement180


Project history

17-gun 2nd class wooden-hulled sloops, Isaac Watts design approved in 1858. Lengthened version of Greyhound design, to obtain higher speed. Imogene and Success were ordered in 1861 but cancelled in 1863.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.