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INDEFATIGABLE 4th rate sailing frigates (1850-1854)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Indefatigable     Devonport DYd 22.8.1846 27.7.1848 23.1.1850 TS 1.1865
Phoebe     Devonport DYd 7.8.1848 12.4.1854 12.5.1854 screw frigate 3.1861, sold 4.1876


Technical data


Data variantsailing screw
Displacement normal, t

2044bm

3584
Displacement full, t

 

 

Length, m

54.9 gundeck

73.3 gundeck

Breadth, m

15.0

15.8

Draught, m

4.84 hold depth

5.89

No of shafts

 

1

Machinery

sails

sails + 1 2-cyl HSE

Power, h. p. 

1780ihp

Max speed, kts 

11.9

Fuel, t 

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

 
Armament

10 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML, 22 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 18 x 1 - 161/16 32pdr 45cwt SBML

1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 8 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML, 42 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML

Complement

500

525



Project history

50-gun 4th rate 32pdr frigates. William Edye design of 1845. Wooden hull.

Modernizations

1861, Phoebe: was converted to screw frigate with data as given in the table

by 1868, Phoebe: was armed with 4 x 1 - 178/18 7'' 6½ton shell SBML, 24 x 1 - 160/16 64pdr 64cwt SBML

Naval service

No significant events.