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WATERWITCH sailing brig (1835)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Waterwitch     Joseph White, East Cowes   15.11.1834 25.3.1835 sold 11.1861


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

324bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

27.6 gundeck

Breadth, m

8.94

Draught, m

3.86 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

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

 

Armament

8 x 1 - 139/8 18pdr SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 93/16 6pdr SBML

Complement

60



Project history

10-gun brig. Design by Joseph White, developed from yacht Louisa of 1828. Ordered as yacht for Duke of Belfast, purchased on the stocks in 1834.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.