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FLAMER mortar vessels (1855)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Flamer, 10.1855- MV.10     Money Wigram & Son, Blackwall 9.10.1854 1.3.1855 1855 yard craft 1858
Firm, 10.1855- MV.11     Money Wigram & Son, Blackwall 9.10.1854 1.3.1855 1855 sold 1858
Havock, 10.1855- MV.5     C. J. Mare & Co., Blackwall 9.10.1854 14.3.1855 1855 Customs 1858
Hardy, 10.1855- MV.12     Money Wigram & Son, Blackwall 9.10.1854 14.3.1855 1855 sold 4.1858
Growler, 10.1855- MV.4     Money Wigram & Son, Blackwall 9.10.1854 31.3.1855 1855 used as coastal construction 12.1863
Surly, 10.1855- MV.9     Money Wigram & Son, Blackwall 9.10.1854 31.3.1855 1855 BU 11.1863
Blazer, 10.1855- MV.3     C. J. Mare & Co., Blackwall 14.10.1854 5.5.1855 1855 yard craft ~1863
Mastiff, 10.1855- MV.7     C. J. Mare & Co., Blackwall 14.10.1854 5.5.1855 1855 Customs 11.1864
Manly, 10.1855- MV.6     John Jenkins Thompson, Rotherhithe 14.10.1854 16.5.1855 1855 hulk 7.1866
Porpoise, 10.1855- MV.8     John Jenkins Thompson, Milwall 14.10.1854 26.5.1855 1855 hulk 7.1866


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

117bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

19.8 gundeck

Breadth, m

6.35

Draught, m

2.29 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p. 
Max speed, kts 
Fuel, t 
Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 330/3 SBML mortar

Complement 


Project history

Mortar vessels of 65ft type, design by Captain Roberts.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.