HMS Trident (1845)

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Career (UK)
Class and type:	Trident-class iron paddle sloop
Name:	HMS Trident
Ordered:	13 May 1843
Builder:	Ditchburn & Mare, Blackwall, London
Laid down:	1845
Launched:	16 December 1845
Commissioned:	8 August 1846
Fate:	Broken up by Castle at Charlton January 1866
General characteristics
Displacement:	903 tons
Tons burthen:	850 tons
Length:	180 ft (55 m)
Beam:	31 ft 6 in (9.6 m)
Draught:	17 ft 3 in (5.3 m)
Propulsion:	Boulton, Watt & Co two-cylinder (70¾ in diamater, 5 ft stroke) oscillating engines 350 nhp
Speed:	9.5 knots
Complement:	135
Armament:	Two x 10 in guns Two (later four) x 32pdr gunnades

HMS Trident was a sloop built for the Royal Navy by Ditchburn & Mare in 1845 at Blackwall. ^[1]

She was a third class iron paddle sloop, and eventually the only ship built to her design, making her a unique class. The builder’s design was approved on 22 August 1843 and Trident was launched on 16 December 1845. Her hull cost £17,000, and her machinery another £17,502. Fitting out was estimated to have cost a further £6,864. Her design was commissioned on 2 August 1842 for a steam yacht to replace HMS Black Eagle, previously HMS Firebrand. Trident was initially rated as a Steam Vessel (SV3) and re-rated as a Second Class sloop on 31 May 1844. She was originally intended to be fitted with a Maudslay 200 nhp side lever engine.

HMS Trident was broken up by Castle at Charlton in January 1866.

[edit] References

1. ^ Illustrated London News 27 Dec 1845

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