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INTREPID screw gunvessels (1856-1857)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Flying Fish     Pembroke DYd 6.1855 20.12.1855 29.1.1856 BU 8.1866
Pioneer     Pembroke DYd 7.1855 19.1.1856 31.5.1856 sold 10.1864
Victor     Money Wigram & Son, Blackwall 24.5.1855 2.11.1855 1.4.1856 sold 11.1863, later Confederacy Rappahannock
Intrepid     Money Wigram & Son, Blackwall 24.5.1855 13.11.1855 4.4.1856 sold 10.1864
Roebuck     J Scott Russell, Millwall 1.8.1855 22.3.1856 25.8.1857 sold 1864
Nimrod     J Scott Russell, Millwall 1.8.1855 21.4.1856 23.2.1857 sold 6.1865


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

1042

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

61.0 pp

Breadth, m

9.25

Draught, m

3.81 full load

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE

Power, h. p.

Flying Fish: 1302ihp

Pioneer: 1150ihp

Victor: 1166ihp

Intrepid: 930ihp

Roebuck: 1099ihp

Max speed, kts

Flying Fish, Victor: 11.6

Pioneer: 11.3

Intrepid: 10.4

Roebuck: 11.4

Nimrod: 8.8

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 4 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML

Complement

100



Project history

Wooden-hulled 1st class despatch/gunvessels, design was approved in 1855. Flying Fish and Pioneer were 'built on the diagonal principle'. Two more ships were ordered but not built. In 1859 all (Pioneer in 1860) were rerated as sloops, but reverted to gunvessels in 1862.

Modernizations

~1860, all: were rearmed with 1 x 1 - 183/14 7'' 110pdr BL, 1 x 1 - 126/21 40pdr BL, 4 x 1 - 100/21 20pdr BL

Naval service

No significant events.