NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Spartan			Plymouth DYd	6.1838	16.8.1841	28.11.1841	sold 5.1862
Iris			Pembroke DYd	9.1838	14.7.1840	11.1.1841	lent mercantile 1864
Juno, 1.1878- Atalanta			Pembroke DYd	4.1842	1.7.1844	31.10.1845	water police ship 4.1862-1/1878, seagoing TS 1.1878, lost 2.1880
Creole			Plymouth DYd	4.1842	1.10.1845	14.10.1845	lent mercantile 2.1870
Amethyst			Plymouth DYd	4.1843	7.12.1844	2.2.1845	lent mercantile 1864
Alarm			Sheerness DYd	9.1843	22.4.1845	4.12.1845	coal depot 8.1861

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	Spartan, Iris, Alarm: 912bm Juno, Creole, Amethyst: 923bm
Displacement full, t
Length, m	39.9 gundeck
Breadth, m	12.4
Draught, m	3.28 hold depth
No of shafts
Machinery	sails
Power, h. p.
Max speed, kts
Fuel, t
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	18 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 40cwt SBML, 8 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML gunnades
Complement	240

Project history

26-gun 6th rate corvettes. William Symonds design of 1837, modified Vestal. Malacca and Niobe were ordered but never completed to this design. Niobe was reordered as Diamond class corvette and Malacca as screw ship.

Modernizations

1840s, all: - 18 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 40cwt; + 2 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 56cwt SBML, 16 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML

Naval service

Atalanta was lost 12-16.2.1880, presumably foundered near Bermuda.