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STROMBOLI paddle sloops (1840)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Stromboli     Portsmouth DYd 9.1838 27.8.1839 6.9.1840 sold 8.1866
Vesuvius     Sheerness DYd 9.1838 11.7.1839 20.4.1840 sold 6.1865


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

1283

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

54.9 pp

Breadth, m

10.5

Draught, m

4.11

No of shafts

2 side wheels

Machinery

sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl side lever engine

Power, h. p.

280nhp

Max speed, kts9
Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 254/11 10'' 84cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 64cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 175/8 42pdr 22cwt SBML carronades

Complement

149



Project history

2nd rate steam vessels, since 1844 1st class sloops. Sir William Symonds design, approved in 1838.

Modernizations

1856, both: - 1 x 1 - 254/11, 2 x 1 - 204/13, 2 x 1 - 175/8; + 1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 4 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML

1862, Vesuvius: - 1 x 1 - 206/15; + 183/14 110pdr 82cwt BL

Naval service

No significant events.