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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Gorgon			Pembroke DYd	7.1836	31.8.1837	30.8.1838	sold 10.1864

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1610
Displacement full, t
Length, m	54.3 pp
Breadth, m	11.4
Draught, m	7.01 hold depth
No of shafts	2 side wheels
Machinery	sails + 4 flue boilers, 1 2-cyl DA
Power, h. p.	800ihp
Max speed, kts	9.5
Fuel, t	coal 380
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 254/11 10'' 84cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 64cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 175/8 42pdr 22cwt SBML carronades
Complement	160

Project history

1st rate steam vessel, since 1844 1st class sloop. Symonds and Edye design, approved in 1836. Initially schooner rig, later brig-rigged. The original design provided 16 32pdr guns on medium and upper decks and 220nhp engine. As troopship Gorgon can carry 160troops with field guns and their limbers.

Modernizations

1856: - 1 x 1 - 254/11, 2 x 1 - 175/8; + 1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML

Naval service

No significant events.