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LIFFEY 4th rate screw frigates (1856-1860)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Liffey     Devonport DYd 12.7.1854 6.5.1856 11.1.1859 store hulk 1877
Shannon     Portsmouth DYd 1.1854 24.11.1855 29.12.1856 sold 5.1871
Topaze     Devonport DYd 4.1856 12.5.1858 23.7.1859 sold 2.1884
Bacchante     Portsmouth DYd 9.1856 31.7.1859 29.6.1860 BU 1869
Liverpool     Devonport DYd 14.11.1859 30.10.1860 11.12.1860 sold 6.1875


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

3915

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

71.7 pp 86.9 oa

Breadth, m

15.3

Draught, m

5.59 hold depth

No of shafts

1

Machinery

Liffey, Shannon: sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE, trunk

Topaze, Bacchante, Liverpool: sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE

Power, h. p.

Liffey: 1905ihp

Shannon: 2125ihp

Topaze: 2538ihp

Bacchante: 2490ihp

Liverpool: 1935ihp

Max speed, kts

Liffey, Topaze: 11.1

Shannon: 11.5

Bacchante: 12.1

Liverpool: 10.8

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 30 x 1 - 204/13 8'' 65cwt shell SBML, 20 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML

Complement

560



Project history

51-gun frigates. Surveyor's Department design. Bacchante, Liffey and Shannon were originally ordered as sailing frigates. Glasgow and Newcastle, originally ordered in 1855 to this design, were completed to modified design. Wooden hull.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.