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PLUMPER screw sloop (1848)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Plumper     Portsmouth DYd 10.1847 5.4.1848 17.12.1848 survey vessel 1860


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

577

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

42.7 pp

Breadth, m

8.48

Draught, m

3.47 mean

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl VSE, oscillating, geared

Power, h. p.

148ihp

Max speed, kts

7.4

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 6 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML

Complement100


Project history

8-gun wooden-hulled sloop. John Fincham design of 1847.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.