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DAPHNE sailing sloops (1837-1846)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Dido     Pembroke DYd 9.1834 13.6.1836 26.1.1837 coal hulk 1860
Daphne     Pembroke DYd 12.1835 6.8.1838 2.2.1839 sold 10.1864
Calypso     Chatham DYd 12.1837 8.5.1845 19.2.1846 BU 1.1866


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

731bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

36.6 gundeck

Breadth, m

11.4

Draught, m

5.49 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

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

 

Armament

Dido, Daphne: 18 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 40cwt SBML

Calypso: 20 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 40cwt SBML

Complement

145



Project history

18-gun 6th rate open battery corvettes. William Symonds design of 1834. Second pair (Calypso and Coquette) had covered battery. Coquette was ordered but never started.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.