British Warships in the Age of Sail 1817-1863: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates by Rif Winfield

Author:Rif Winfield
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bisac Code 1: HIS027150; HISTORY / Military / Naval
ISBN: 9781473837430
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
Published: 2014-04-30T04:00:00+00:00

PEARL Class First Class corvettes, 21 guns. Surveyor’s Department design, approved 18 November 1853. First three were ordered to a design of 1,390 tons, enlarged to 1,462 tons later in November 1853. The order for Cadmus replaced an 1834 order at Chatham for sailing corvette Coquette (which was never formally cancelled). Three more were ordered a year later, and a final four in 1855. Penn cylinders were of 58⅛in diameter, 3¼ft stroke; Ravenhill cylinders were of 64in diameter, 3ft stroke. Charybdis was lent to the Canadian government from October 1880 to August 1882 as a training ship. Challenger was the vessel used for the pioneer oceanographic world voyage of 1872–76. On 10 February 1858 the three last ships above were redesignated as a separate class, with a second pivot-mounted 68pdr added.

Dimensions & tons: (225ft 3in oa) 200ft 0in, 171ft 9¾in x 40ft 4in oa (40ft 0in for tonnage) x 23ft 11in. 1,46222/94bm. 2,187 tons displacement (last three 2,306 tons).

Men: 270. Guns: MD 20 x 8in (60cwt/8ft 10in) MLSB shell guns – on broadside trucks; UD (‘spar deck’) 1 x 68pdr/10in (95cwt/10ft) MLSB – pivot-mounted at bow (2 x 68pdrs in Challenger, Racoon and Clio). By 1868 most were reduced to 17 guns (18 in final trio); generally 64pdrs had replaced some or all of the 8in shell guns.

Machinery: 2-cylinder horizontal single expansion, trunk in Penn-engined ships. Single screw. 400nhp. See below for ihp/speed.

Pearl Woolwich Dyd/John Penn & Son (1,324ihp = 11.313kts)

Tonnage as completed: 1,469bm. 2,115 disp. Draught 16ft 2in (fwd), 19ft 9in (aft).

Ord: 2.4.1853. (named 8.6.1853) K: 1.1854. L: 13.2.1855. C: 25.1.1856.

First cost: £75,054 including £39,185 for hull and £25,354 for machinery.

Commissioned 1.1.1856 at Woolwich under Capt. Edward Southwell Sotheby, for the Pacific ; in Peru during revolution of 1857; to India during the Mutiny (Pearl’s Naval Brigade was ashore under Sotheby’s command); paid off 16.6.1859 at Portsmouth. Recommissioned 12.8.1859 under Capt. William Edmonstone, then 23.8.1859 Capt. John Borlase, for the East Indies and China; in Taiping rebellion; in Bombardment of Kagoshima during ‘Anglo-Satsuma War’; paid off 18.6.1864 at Portsmouth. Recommissioned 4.5.1866 under Capt. John Francis Ross, for China; joined Flying Squadron at Yokohama 17.4.1870; paid off 1.12.1870 at Portsmouth. Recommissioned 16.5.1873 under Capt. James Graham Goodenough (died 20.8.1875), for Australia, of which station she was flagship from 16.10.1873. On 7.9.1875 under Commodore Anthony Hiley Hoskins, in Australia; from 1.1877 under Capt. Lindesay Brine, for return to UK; paid off 5.6.1877 at Portsmouth. Sold to Castle 8.1884 to BU at Charlton.

Satellite Devonport Dyd/John Penn & Son (1,214ihp = 10.55kts)

Tonnage as completed: 1,462bm. 2,138 disp. Draught 16ft 8in (fwd), 19ft 6in (aft).

Ord: 2.4.1853. (named 18.11.1853) K: 8.7.1854. L: 26.9.1855. C: 23.12.1856.

First cost: £74,185, including £32,535 for hull and £26,329 for machinery.

Commissioned 30.9.1856 under Capt. James Charles Prevost, for the Pacific; paid off 26.1.1861. Recommissioned 27.11.1861 under Capt. John Ormsby Johnson, for east coast South America; on 5.5.1862 under Capt. Stephen Smith Lowther Crofton (Johnson invalided), on same station; paid off 22.9.1865 at Plymouth. Recommissioned 27.10.1866 under Capt. Richard Purvis; on 14.11.1866 under Capt.

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