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SATELLITE composite screw sloops (corvettes since 1884) (7, 1882 - 1886)


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Satellite 1880s

Ships


Name

No

Yard No

Builder

Laid down

Launched

Comp

Fate

Satellite     Sheerness DYd 4.10.1880 13.8.1881 24.7.1883 RNVR drill ship 1904
Heroine     Devonport DYd 30.8.1880 3.12.1881 19.9.1883 sold to BU 8.1902
Hyacinth     Devonport DYd 30.8.1880 20.12.1881 27.1.1884 sold to BU 8.1902
Caroline     Sheerness DYd 24.10.1881 25.11.1882 27.1.1886 hulk 1897
Royalist     Devonport DYd 27.4.1881 7.3.1883 14.4.1886 hulk 2.1900
Rapid     Devonport DYd 21.4.1881 21.3.1883 9.9.1884 hulk 1906
Pylades     Sheerness DYd 1.1.1883 5.11.1884 17.8.1886 sold to BU 4.1906


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

1420

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

61.0 pp

Breadth, m

11.6

Draught, m

4.80

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 HC, cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

Satellite, Rapid, Caroline: 1400

Heroine, Hyacinth: 1470

Royalist: 1510

Pylades: 1640

Max speed, kts

Satellite, Royalist, Rapid, Caroline, Pylades: 13

Heroine, Hyacinth: 13.1

Fuel, t

coal 400

Endurance, nm(kts)

6000(10)

Armour, mmsteel; deck: 25 - 19
Armament

Satellite, Rapid: 2 x 1 - 152/26 BL Mk II, 10 x 1 - 127/25 BL Mk I/II/III/IV, 4 x 1 - 11.4/87

Heroine, Hyacinth, Royalist: 8 x 1 - 152/26 BL Mk II, 4 x 1 - 11.4/87

Caroline, Pylades: 14 x 1 - 127/25 BL Mk I/II/III/IV, 8 x 1 - 11.4/87

Complement

170 - 200



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<i>Satellite </i>1880s
Satellite 1880s


Project history

Designed by Nathaniel Barnaby. This was the only class of wooden or composite-hulled ships to receive a protective deck. Laid down as sloops, they were upgraded to corvettes in 1884, and as such they were the smallest ships to be rated as corvettes. In construction, they were of the same general principle as in the Emerald class. The sailing rig was changed from ship- to barque-rig. Pylades was the last corvette built for the navy until this rate was revived in the Second World War. In contrast to the Emerald class, the mechanical improvements and better workmanship of the compound engines gave these ships large radius of action.

Ship protection

A protective steel deck of 25mm to 19mm extended for 22.3m over the vitals.

Modernizations

1880s, Satellite: - 10 x 1 - 127/25; + 6 x 1 - 152/26 BL Mk II

1892-1893, Hyacinth: - 8 x 1 - 152/26; + 8 x 1 - 152/26 Mk IV/VI

1892-1893, Rapid: - 8 x 1 - 152/26; + 1 x 1 - 152/26 BL Mk IV, 10 x 1 - 127/25 BL Mk I/III/V

1892-1893, Royalist: - 2 x 1 - 152/26; + 2 x 1 - 152/26 BL Mk IV/VI

Naval service

Royalist, hulked in February 1900 and renamed Colleen in December 1913, was transferred to Irish Free State Government in February 1923.