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CASTOR 5th rate sailing frigates (1832)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Castor     Chatham DYd 1.1830 2.5.1832 6.1832 TS 4.1860
Amphion     Woolwich DYd 15.4.1840 --- --- reordered as screw frigate 6.1844


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

1284bm 1808 normal

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

48.5 gundeck

Breadth, m

13.0

Draught, m

4.11 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

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

 

Armament

22 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 55cwt SBML, 14 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML

Complement

315



Project history

36-gun 5th rate 32pdr frigates. Sir Robert Seppings design of 1828, derived from Stag class with increased beam to mount heavier guns.

Modernizations

by 1839: was armed with 4 x 1 - 204/10 68pdr 50cwt shell SBML, 18 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 14 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML

1848: - 2 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt; + 2 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr 50cwt SBML

Naval service

No significant events.