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TERMAGANT screw frigate (1854)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Termagant     Deptford DYd 4.1845 25.9.1847 12.10.1854 sold 3.1867


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

2312

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m64.0 pp
Breadth, m12.3
Draught, m5.06
No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + boilers, 1 4-cyl HSE, geared

Power, h. p.

1351ihp

Max speed, kts9.5
Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armamentas designed: 6 x 1 - 254/11 10'' 84cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 206/16 8'' 112cwt shell SBML, 12 x 1 - 177/17 42pdr 84cwt SBML, 8 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML
Complement 


Project history

2nd class 24-gun frigate, since 1846 1st class. White design of 1844. Sister-ship Euphrates (lengthened before cancellation to 65.7m pp, 2402t) was cancelled. Termagant was designed as 28-gun ship, but was completed with only 24. Wooden hull.

Modernizations

1854: re-engined with 1 2-cyl HSE (1206ihp, 10.7kts)

1856: + 1 x 1 - 254/11 10'' 85cwt shell SBML

Naval service

No significant events.