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CLOWN screw gunboats (1856-1857)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Fenella     W & H Pitcher, Northfleet 5.3.1856 19.5.1856 26.1.1857 dredger 3.1867
Garnet     W & H Pitcher, Northfleet 5.3.1856 31.5.1856 26.1.1857 BU 5.1864
Handy     W & H Pitcher, Northfleet 5.3.1856 31.5.1856 26.1.1857 sold 5.1868
Hunter     W & H Pitcher, Northfleet 12.3.1856 7.6.1856 26.1.1857 sold 1884
Drake     Pembroke DYd 1.1856 8.3.1856 31.5.1856 sold 2.1869
Janus     Pembroke DYd 25.1.1856 8.3.1856 31.5.1856 coal lighter 12.1869
Clown     Wm Cowley Miller, Toxteth Dock, Liverpool 14.1.1856 20.5.1856 4.5.1857 coal lighter 1867
Kestrel     Wm Cowley Miller, Toxteth Dock, Liverpool 14.1.1856 26.5.1856 4.5.1857 sold 16.3.1866
Ready     Briggs & Co, Sunderland 2.1856 12.5.1856 29.4.1857 BU 1.1864
Thrush     Briggs & Co, Sunderland 2.1856 12.5.1856 29.4.1857 BU 3.1864
Watchful     T & Wm Smith, North Shields 25.2.1856 4.6.1856 11.4.1857 tender 1863
Woodcock     T & Wm Smith, North Shields 25.2.1856 6.6.1856 11.4.1857 sold 2.1871


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

249

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

33.5 pp

Breadth, m

6.65

Draught, m

1.22

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 2 cylindrical boilers, 1 1-cyl HSE direct-acting

Power, h. p.

Woodcock: 145ihp

Max speed, ktsWoodcock: 7.5
Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 1 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML

Complement

30



Project history

Wooden-hulled gunboats. Improved Cheerful.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Hunter was never completed for sea and sent to the sale list in June 1869 but was sold only in 1884. Kestrel sunk at the Peiho forts in June 1859 but was salved.