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LEOPARD paddle frigate (1853)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Leopard     Deptford DYd 8.1846 5.11.1850 3.1853 sold 4.1867


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

1413bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

66.4 pp

Breadth, m

11.4

Draught, m

2.77

No of shafts

2 side wheels

Machinery

sails + 4 tubular boilers, 1 2-cyl VDA

Power, h. p.

560nhp

Max speed, kts

11.2

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

4 x 1 - 254/11 10'' 85cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 12 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML

Complement

200



Project history

2nd class frigate, 18 guns. Committee of Reference (John Fincham) design, approved in 1847. Originally ordered to Odin design but later lengthened by 3m. Wooden hull.

Modernizations

1862: was rearmed with 1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 5 x 1 - 183/12 100pdr 82cwt Armstrong BL, 8 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 4 x 1 - 126/19 40pdr 32cwt BL

Naval service

No significant events.