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PEARL 6th rate screw corvettes (1856-1861)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Pearl     Woolwich DYd 1.1854 13.2.1855 25.1.1856 sold 8.1884
Satellite     Devonport DYd 8.7.1854 26.9.1855 23.12.1856 BU 12.1879
Cadmus     Chatham DYd 10.5.1855 20.5.1856 4.6.1859 BU 9.1879
Scout     Woolwich DYd 10.1854 31.12.1856 9.7.1859 BU 3.1877
Scylla     Sheerness DYd 4.1.1855 19.6.1856 15.8.1859 sold 11.1882
Charybdis     Chatham DYd 29.3.1856 1.6.1859 19.11.1860 to Canadian Government 10.1880
Pelorus     Devonport DYd 25.3.1856 5.2.1857 10.9.1857 BU 2.1869
Challenger     Woolwich DYd 3.10.1855 13.2.1856 28.5.1861 survey ship 1872
Racoon     Chatham DYd 21.4.1856 25.4.1857 8.2.1858 BU 8.1877
Clio     Sheerness DYd 25.6.1856 26.8.1858 18.9.1859 TS 1876


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

2187

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

68.7 oa 61.0 pp

Breadth, m

12.3

Draught, m

5.74 - 6.25

No of shafts

1

Machinery

Pearl, Satellite, Cadmus, Scout, Scylla, Challenger: sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE, trunk

Charybdis, Pelorus, Racoon, Clio: sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE

Power, h. p.

Pearl: 1324ihp

Satellite: 1214ihp

Cadmus: 1526ihp

Scout: 1327ihp

Scylla: 1376ihp

Charybdis: 1363ihp

Pelorus: 1408ihp

Challenger: 1450ihp

Racoon: 1651ihp

Clio: 1540ihp

Max speed, kts

Pearl: 11.3

Satellite: 10.6

Cadmus: 11.8

Scout, Pelorus: 10.9

Scylla: 10.8

Charybdis: 10

Challenger: 10.7

Racoon: 11.4

Clio: 11.2

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 20 x 1 - 204/10 8'' 42cwt shell SBML

Complement 


Project history

Wooden-hulled 21-gun 1st class corvettes. Surveyor's Department design, approved in 1853.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.