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MALACCA screw sloop (1854)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Malacca     Moulmein, Burma // Chatham DYd 29.5.1849 9.4.1853 17.8.1854 sold 6.1869


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

1034bm

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

58.5 pp

Breadth, m

10.5

Draught, m

5.74

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl ISE (inclined), trunk

Power, h. p.

692ihp

Max speed, kts

9.2

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

(1 x 1 - 254/11 10'' 85cwt shell SBML, 18 x 1 - 160/13 32pdr 32cwt SBML) or (1 x 1 - 204/13 8'' 65cwt shell SBML, 16 x 1 - 160/13 32pdr 32cwt SBML)

Complement180


Project history

17-gun wooden-hulled sloop, reclassed as corvette in 1862. Surveyor's Department design, approved in 1848.

Modernizations

1862: re-engined with 1 2-cyl HSE, 707ihp, 9.5kts

Naval service

Malacca was sold mercantile in 1869 and later that year resold to Japanese Navy as Tsukuba.