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TERRIBLE paddle frigate (1846)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Terrible     Deptford DYd 11.1843 6.2.1845 25.3.1846 sold 7.1879


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

3189

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

68.9 pp

Breadth, m

13.0

Draught, m

3.45

No of shafts

2 side wheels

Machinery

sails + 4 tubular boilers, 1 4-cyl VSE direct action 'Siamese' type

Power, h. p.

800nhp 2059ihp

Max speed, kts

10.9

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

8 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 8 x 1 - 194/17 56pdr 98cwt SBML, 3 x 1 - 114/15 12pdr 6cwt SBML

Complement

300



Project history

1st rate steam vessel, later 1st class frigate, 19 guns. Oliver Lang design, approved in 1842. The first RN ship with four funnels and the largest paddle warship ever built for RN.

Modernizations

1847: - 3 x 1 - 114/15 12pdr 6cwt

Naval service

No significant events.