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FANTOME composite screw sloops (1873-1874)


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Albatross 1873

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Fantome     Pembroke DYd 1872 26.3.1873 12.1873 sold 2.1889
Albatross     Chatham DYd 1872 27.4.1873 2.1874 BU 2.1889
Sappho     Money Wigram & Sons, Blackwall 1872 20.10.1873 2.1874 sold 12.1887
Egeria     Pembroke DYd 30.12.1872 1.11.1873 11.1874 survey ship 10.1886
Flying Fish (ex-Daring)     Chatham DYd 1872 27.11.1873 6.1874 survey ship 1878
Daring     Money Wigram & Sons, Blackwall 1872 4.2.1874 9.1874 sold 8.1889


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

949

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

48.8 pp

Breadth, m

9.55

Draught, m

3.81 hold depth

No of shafts

1

Machinery

Fantome, Albatross, Sappho, Egeria, Flying Fish: sails + 3 cylindrical boilers, 1 2-cyl HC

Daring: sails + 3 cylindrical boilers, 1 2-cyl HC trunk

Power, h. p.

FAntome: 975

Albatross: 838

Sappho: 884

Egeria: 1011

Flyng Fish: 836

Daring: 915

Max speed, kts

Fantome: 11.1

Albatross: 10.5

Sappho, Daring: 10.6

Egeria: 11.3

Flying Fish: 11

Fuel, t

coal 100

Endurance, nm(kts)

1000(10)

Armament

2 x 1 - 178/16 MLR Mk III, 2 x 1 - 160/16 64pdr 71cwt MLR

Complement125


Standard scale images


<i>Daring </i>1876
Daring 1876


Graphics


<i>Albatross </i>1873
Albatross 1873


Project history

Designed by Nathaniel Barnaby. With his appointment as Surveyor, there was a return to the smaller size of sloop, a policy which was brought about by the declining status of this rate of ship. Reed's ram-bow was not repeated. Although an interesting and somewhat theoretical concept of hull design, its disadvantage was that it made a ship too lively. The Fantome class consisted of the first composite-built sloops, the first to be fitted with compound engines, and all guns were pivoted. Simple expansion engines were no longer fitted since compounding had a marked effect on fuel economy. With a bunkerage capacity of around 250t, their radius of action was 1000nm at 10kts.     These sloops were the largest warships in the navy to retain the system of all guns pivoted, in contrast to the larger sloops where both traversing and broadside mountings were fitted. The guns were slide-mounted, pivoted at the after or inboard end, with runners forward, engaging in racers let into the deck, and fired through embrasures. They were fitted with a Griffiths 3.4m diameter screw.     With the exceptions of Egeria and Flying Fish, no vessels in this class were rearmed. The two named ships were converted into survey vessels. All these vessels had rounded sterns but were not particularly handsome with their tall thin funnels and vertical stems.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.