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DRUID 5th rate sailing frigates (1825-1840)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Druid     Pembroke DYd 8.1821 1.7.1825 21.12.1825 lazarette 6.1846
Madagascar     East India Co., Bombay 10.1821 15.11.1822 1.1829 provision depot 9.1846
Nemesis     Pembroke DYd 8.1823 19.8.1826 9.1826 BU 7.1866
Leda     Pembroke DYd 10.1824 15.4.1828 5.1828 water police ship 3.1865
Hotspur     Pembroke DYd 7.1825 9.10.1828 4.1829 chapel ship 1859
Africaine     Chatham DYd 9.1825 20.12.1827 3.3.1828 sold 5.1867
Eurotas     Chatham DYd 2.1827 19.2.1829 20.3.1829 screw mortar frigate 7.1855, sold 11.1865


Technical data


Data variantsailing screw
Displacement normal, t

1162bm

1293
Displacement full, t

 

 

Length, m

48.5 gundeck

50.6 gundeck

Breadth, m

12.5

12.4

Draught, m

3.89 hold depth

3.89 hold depth

No of shafts

 

1

Machinery

sails

sails + 1 2-cyl HSE, trunk

Power, h. p. 

562ihp

Max speed, kts 

7.6

Fuel, t 

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

 
Armament

16 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr 17cwt SBML carronades, 28 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr 38cwt SBML, 2 x 1 - 81/20 9pdr 26cwt SBML

2 x 1 - 254/11 10'' 86cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 194/16 56pdr 85cwt SBML, 20 x 1 - 177/16 42pdr 66cwt SBML

Complement

315

320


Project history

46-gun 5th rate 18pdr frigates. Modification of Seringapatam class design with addition of circular stern.

Modernizations

1830s, all: were rearmed with 2 x 1 - 204/12 68pdr shell SBML, 40 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr SBML

1855, Eurotas: was converted to screw frigate with data as given in the table

Naval service

No significant events.