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PLOVER wooden gunvessels (1867-1871)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Plover     Deptford DYd   20.2.1867 1867? sold 8.1885
Ringdove     Portsmouth DYd   4.9.1867 1867? sold 5.1882
Philomel     Deptford DYd   29.10.1867 1867? sold 4.1886
Lapwing     Devonport DYd 21.1.1867 8.11.1867 27.6.1868 sold 4.1885
Magpie     Portsmouth DYd   12.2.1868 1868? survey vessel 1878
Bullfinch     Sheerness DYd   13.2.1868 1868? sold 6.1885
Seagull     Devonport DYd 15.4.1867 6.3.1868 19.4.1871 sold 11.1887
Curlew     Deptford DYd   20.8.1868 1868? sold 11.1882
Swallow     Portsmouth DYd   16.11.1868 1868? sold 10.1882
Bittern     Pembroke DYd   20.9.1869 1869? sold 11.1887
Vulture     Sheerness DYd   6.11.1869 1869? sold 9.1885
Woodlark     Chatham DYd   9.3.1871 1871? sold 3.1887


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

805

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

51.8 pp

Breadth, m

8.84

Draught, m

3.20

No of shafts

2

Machinery

Plover, Bittern: sails + 4 boilers, 2 2-cel HSE, trunk

Ringdove, Philomel, Lapwing, Bullfinch, Seagull, Curlew, Swallow, Vulture, Woodlark: sails + 4 boilers, 2 2-cyl HSE

Magpie: sails + 4 boilers, 2 2-cel HSE return connection rod

Power, h. p.

Plover: 977

Ringdove: 957

Philomel: 961

Lapwing: 882

Magpie: 857

Bullfinch: 985

Seagull: 898

Curlew: 918

Swallow: 892

Bittern: 851

Vulture: 889

Woodlark: 881

Max speed, kts

Plover: 11.3

Ringdove: 10.7

Philomel, Swallow: 11

Lapwing, Woodlark: 10.8

Magpie: 10.4

Bullfinch: 10.6

Seagull, Curlew: 11.2

Bittern: 11.1

Vulture: 10.9

Fuel, t

coal 110

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 178/16 MLR Mk III, 2 x 1 - 126/21 40pdr 35cwt BL

Complement

90



Project history

Wooden-hulled gunvessels, 3 guns. Edward Reed design of 1865. Barque rig, 1300m² sail area, telescopic funnels.

Modernizations

1870s, Philomel, Magpie, Seagull, Swallow, Vulture, Woodlark: were given topgallant forecastle and poop (805t displacement)

1870s, Plover, Philomel, Magpie, Bullfinch, Seagull, Curlew, Swallow, Vulture, Woodlark: - 2 x 1 - 126/21; + 2 x 1 - 160/16 64pdr 64cwt MLR

Naval service

No significant events.