HMS Sirius |
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Eclipse-class sloop (later corvette) |
| Builders: | Devonport Dockyard Portsmouth Dockyard |
| Operators: | Royal Navy |
| Built: | 1867 - 1870 |
| In commission: | 1867 - 1921 |
| Completed: | 7 |
| Lost: | 0 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Wooden screw sloops (corvettes from 1876) |
| Displacement: | 1760 tons[1] |
| Tons burthen: | 1268 bm |
| Length: | 212 ft (65 m) |
| Beam: | 36 ft (11 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 16 ft 4 in (4.98 m)[2] |
| Installed power: | 350 nominal horsepower 1,946 to 2,518 indicated horsepower (1,451 to 1,878 kW)[3] |
| Propulsion: | Danae, Eclipse, Dido, Blanche:
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| Sail plan: | Built with ship rig but changed to barque rig |
| Speed: | 13.6 kn (25.2 km/h)[2] |
| Complement: | 180 |
| Armament: | As built:
As corvettes (1876):
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The Eclipse class was a class of seven 6-gun wooden screw sloops [1] built for the Royal Navy between 1867 and 1870. They were re-armed and re-classified as 12-gun corvettes in 1876. Two further vessel were proposed but never ordered.
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A development of the Amazon class, they were designed by Edward Reed, the Royal Navy Director of Naval Construction. The hull was of wooden construction, but with iron cross-beams, and a ram bow was fitted.[2]
Propulsion was provided by a two-cylinder horizontal steam engine driving a single screw. Spartan, Sirius and Tenedos had compound steam engines, and the remainder of the class had single-expansion steam engines.
All the ships of the class were built with a ship rig, but this was replaced with a barque rig.
The Eclipse class was designed with two 7-inch (6½-ton) muzzle loading rifled guns mounted in traversing slides and four 64-pounder muzzle loading rifled guns.[2] They were re-classified as corvettes in 1876, carrying a homogenous armament of twelve 64-pounder muzzle loading rifled guns.
| Name | Ship Builder | Launched | Fate |
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| Danae | Portsmouth Dockyard | 21 May 1867 | Lent to the War Department as a hulk in 1886 and sold on 15 May 1906[2] |
| Blanche | Chatham Dockyard | 17 August 1867 | Sold to Castle for breaking in September 1886 |
| Eclipse | Sheerness Dockyard | 14 November 1867 | Lent to the War Department as a hulk for storage of mines from 1888 to 1892. Sold in 1921[2] |
| Sirius | Portsmouth Dockyard | 24 April 1868 | Sold to Castle for breaking at Charlton in 1885[2] |
| Spartan | Deptford Dockyard | 14 November 1868 | Sold to Castle for breaking on 7 November 1882[2] |
| Dido | Portsmouth Dockyard | 23 October 1869 | Hulked in 1886. Renamed Actaeon II in 1906. Sold to J B Garnham for breaking on 17 July 1922[2] |
| Tenedos | Devonport Dockyard | 13 May 1870 | Sold to G Pethwick of Plymouth for breaking in November 1887[2] |
| Proserpine | - | - | Authorised on 18 December 1866 but never ordered[2] |
| Diomede | - | - | Authorised on 18 December 1866 but rescinded on 30 April 1867[2] |
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