NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Rosario			Deptford DYd	13.6.1859	17.10.1860	7.1862	to South Australia as hulk 1874
Peterel			Devonport DYd	5.12.1859	10.11.1860	3.1862	light vessel 12.1877
Rapid			Deptford DYd	18.8.1859	29.11.1860	6.1862	BU 9.1881
Shearwater			Pembroke DYd	2.4.1860	17.10.1861	12.1862	BU 2.1877
Royalist			Devonport DYd	20.10.1860	14.12.1861	10.1863	BU 9.1875
Columbine			Deptford DYd	16.5.1860	2.4.1862	5.1863	BU 6.1875
Africa			Devonport DYd	22.12.1860	14.2.1862	13.8.1862	to China 8.1862 (China)
Circassian (ex-Enterprise)			Deptford DYd	1.5.1861	---	---	cancelled 12.1863
Acheron			Deptford DYd	14.10.1861	---	---	cancelled 12.1863
Bittern			Devonport DYd	17.12.1861	---	---	cancelled 12.1863
Fame			Deptford DYd	2.12.1861	---	---	cancelled 12.1863
Cynthia			Devonport DYd	2.12.1861	---	---	cancelled 12.1863
Sabrina			Pembroke DYd	28.5.1861	---	---	cancelled 12.1863

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	913
Displacement full, t
Length, m	48.8 pp
Breadth, m	9.25
Draught, m	4.82
No of shafts	1
Machinery	sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE
Power, h. p.	Rosario: 436ihp Peterel: 478ihp Rapid: 460ihp Shearwater: 532ihp Royalist: 627ihp Columbine: 598ihp Africa: 530ihp
Max speed, kts	Rosario: 9.2 Peterel, Shearwater: 9 Rapid: 9.1 Royalist: 9.3 Columbine, Africa: 9.5
Fuel, t	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 126/23 40pdr 58cwt BL, 4 x 1 - 100/21 20pdr BL, 6 x 1 - 160/13 32pdr 30cwt SBML
Complement	150

Project history

11-gun 3rd class wooden-hulled sloops. Isaac Watts design, approved in 1858.

Modernizations

by 1869, Rosario, Peterel, Rapid, Shearwater, Royalist, Columbine: were armed with 1 x 1 - 183/14 7'' ML, 2 x 1 - 126/23 40pdr BL

Naval service

No significant events.