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JUNO wooden screw corvettes (1868-1870)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Juno     Deptford DYd 1866 28.11.1867 5.1868 sold 12.1887
Thalia     Woolwich DYd 1866 14.7.1869 3.1870 troopship 10.1886


Technical data


Displacement normal, t2216
Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

61.0 pp

Breadth, m

12.3

Draught, m

5.05

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 2-cyl HSE, 4 boilers

Power, h. p.

Juno: 1090

Thalia: 1597

Max speed, kts

Juno: 10.5

Thalia: 11.1

Fuel, t

coal 230

Endurance, nm(kts)2350(10)
Armament

2 x 1 - 178/16 MLR Mk III, 4 x 1 - 160/16 64pdr 71cwt MLR

Complement

200



Project history

Designed by Sir Edward Reed, Surveyor to the Navy 1863-70. Both vessels were designed primarily for carrying troops. The soldiers were berthed on the lower deck, and the sailors on the upper deck. In design they resembled the spar-decked corvette Challenger (launched 1855), the type of construction consisting of a light deck in the form of a wooden grill supported on stanchions above the upper deck and forecastle deck. They were ship-rigged, and each vessel had a telescopic funnel. Thalia was the last ship to be built in the historicWoolwich Royal Dockyard, wliich was then closed down.

Modernizations

1876, Juno: - 2 x 1 - 178/16; + 4 x 1 - 160/16 64pdr 71cwt MLR

1876, Thalia: - 2 x 1 - 178/16; + 2 x 1 - 160/16 64pdr 71cwt MLR

Naval service

No significant events.