NAVYPEDIA

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
	Adams		Boston N Yd	2/1874	24.10.1874	21.7.1876	civilian TS 8.1908
	Alliance (ex-Huron)		Norfolk N Yd	1873	8.3.1875	18.1.1877	sailing TS 4.1901
	Enterprise		J W Griffiths, Portsmouth	1874	13.6.1874	16.3.1877	civilian TS 10.1892
	Nipsic		Washington N Yd	1874	1878	11.10.1879	receiving ship 1892
1920- IX10	Essex		D McKay, Boston	1874	1875	3.10.1876	TS 1893, Naval Militia TS 1904, TS 1917, Naval Militia TS 8.1927

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1375
Displacement full, t
Length, m	56.4 pp
Breadth, m	10.7
Draught, m	4.35 mean
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 HCRCR, 8 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	700 - 800
Max speed, kts	10 - 11
Fuel, t	coal 130 - 150
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 279/15 Dahlgren SB, 4 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 135/21 60pdr Parrott RML
Complement	178 - 193

Standard scale images

Project history

Barque-rigged steamers, whose long life is somewhat deceptive.

Modernizations

1887, Alliance, Enterprise, Nipsic, Essex: were armed with 4 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 203/18 Dahlgren (converted) RML, 1 x 1 - 135/21 60pdr Parrott RML, 2 - 4 small guns

1887, Adams: was armed with 4 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 203/18 150pdr Parrott RML, 1 x 1 - 135/21 60pdr Parrott RML, 2 - 4 small guns

Naval service

Adams was a training and station ship from 1907, Alliance had her engines removed as a store ship in 1904, Enterprise was a training ship from 1892, and Essex also for most of her career from 1893. Nipsic was thrown on the beach in the Calliope typhoon in Apia Harbour 16.3.1889 and was repaired, but from 1892 she was receiving and prison ship at Puget Sound.  Mohican was a training ship 1898-1904, then station ship at Olongapo and from 1910 to 1921 receiving ship at Cavite, serving also as a stationary submarine tender to the end of 1915.