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COMET sailing sloops (1829-1838)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Comet, 10.1832- Comus     Pembroke DYd 10.1826 14.8.1828 28.2.1829 BU 5.1862
Lightning, 9.1832- Larne     Pembroke DYd 7.1828 2.6.1829 16.9.1829 BU 3.1866
Electra     Portsmouth DYd 2.1830 28.9.1837 17.2.1838 sold 2.1862


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

459bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

34.5 gundeck

Breadth, m

9.40

Draught, m

2.44 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

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

 

Armament

16 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 93/16 6pdr SBML

Complement

125



Project history

18-gun flush-decked sloops. Longer 1823 design by Professor Inman. Electra was originally ordered as one of the Fly class.

Modernizations

1840s, Comus: - 2 x 1 - 93/16 6pdr SBML; + 2 x 1 - 107/16 9pdr SBML

1840s, Electra: - 2 x 1 - 93/16 6pdr SBML; + 2 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr SBML

1846, Electra, 1848, Comus, Larne: - 4 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML

Naval service

No significant events.