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FORESTER composite gunboats (12, 1874 - 1877)


Ships


Name

No

Yard No

Builder

Laid down

Launched

Comp

Fate

Cygnet

  60

Doxford, Sunderland

1873

30.5.1874

1874

BU 1889

Express

 

61

Doxford, Sunderland

1873

16.7.1874

1874

sold 8.1889

Contest

 

62

Doxford, Sunderland

1873

29.8.1874

1874

BU 1889

Sheldrake, 3.1888- Drake

 

339

Napier, Govan

1874

3.7.1875

1875

drill ship 3.1888, coastguard 1893

Mallard

 

204

Earle, Hull

1874

4.8.1875

1875

sold 8.1889

Moorhen

 

340

Napier, Govan

1874

13.9.1875

1875

sold 11.1888

Foxhound

 

 

Barrow Iron SB

2/1876

29.1.1877

11/1877

coastguard 1886

Forward

 

 

Barrow Iron SB

1876

29.1.1877

1877

coal hulk 1892

Firm

 

209

Earle, Hull

1876

14.2.1877

1877

sold 5.1907

Forester

 

210

Earle, Hull

1876

26.2.1877

1877

coal hulk 1894

Firebrand

 

152

J & G Thomson, Govan

1876

30.4.1877

1877

sold 1905

Firefly

 

153

J & G Thomson, Govan

1876

28.6.1877

1877

boom defence vessel 1904



Technical data


Displacement normal, t

Cygnet, Express, Contest, Sheldrake, Mallard, Moorhen: 440

Foxhound, Forward, Firm, Forester, Firebrand, Firefly: 455

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

38.1 pp

Breadth, m

7.16

Draught, m

2.59 - 3.20

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 2-cyl HC, cylindrical boilers

Moorhen, Sheldrake: sails + 1 2-cyl HSE direct acton, cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

Cygnet, Express, Contest, Sheldrake, Mallard, Moorhen: 450

Foxhound, Forward, Firm, Forester, Firebrand, Firefly: 500

Max speed, kts

10

Fuel, t

coal 40

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 1 - 160/16 64pdr 56cwt MLR, 2 x 1 - 100/21 20pdr 16cwt BL

Complement

60



Project history

Three-masted barquentine rig. All 4 guns were mounted on traversing carriages.

Modernizations

1880s, some: - 2 x 1 - 160/16; + 2 x 1 - 127/25 BL Mk I/II/III/IV/V

Naval service

No significant events.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.