HMS Egeria |
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Fantome-class sloops |
| Builders: | Pembroke Dock Blackwall Yard Chatham Dockyard Money Wigram & Sons |
| Operators: | Royal Navy |
| Cost: | Egeria: Hull £32,468, machinery £10,414[1] |
| Built: | 1873–1874 |
| In commission: | 1873–1911 |
| Completed: | 6 |
| Lost: | 0 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Screw composite sloop |
| Displacement: | 949 tons[1] |
| Tons burthen: | 727 bm |
| Length: | 160 ft (49 m) (gundeck) 139 ft 3 in (42.44 m) (keel) |
| Beam: | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Draught: | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
| Installed power: | 120 nominal horsepower 836 to 1,011 indicated horsepower (623 to 754 kW) |
| Propulsion: |
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| Sail plan: | Barque |
| Range: | 1,000 nmi (1,900 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h) |
| Complement: | 125 |
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The Fantome class was a six-ship class of 4-gun screw composite sloops [2] built for the Royal Navy during 1873 and 1874.
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Fantome and her sister ships were constructed of an iron frame sheathed with teak and copper (hence 'composite').
A two-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine provided by Humphrys, Tennant & Company powered an 11-foot (3.4 m) diameter screw. Steam was provided by three cylindrical boilers working at 60 pounds per square inch (4.1 bar). The indicated horsepower varied from 836 to 1,011 ihp (623 to 754 kW). Daring was fitted with a trunk engine provided by John Penn & Sons.[1]
All the ships of the class were provided with a full barque rig.
The Fantome class carried two 7-inch (180 mm) and two 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifles, all mounted on pivots.
Built at a time of great technological change in naval architecture, these composite sloops were obsolete before they were completed. Nevertheless, they served a useful function on the far-flung stations of the British Empire, including participation in minor wars, such as the Perak War. They were also used for hydrography, and for this reason Egeria was retained until 1911.
| Name | Ship Builder | Launched | Fate |
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| Fantome | Pembroke Dock | 26 March 1873 | Sold 1889[2][3] |
| Albatross | Chatham Dockyard[1] | 24 July 1873 | Scrapped 1889[2][4] |
| Daring | Blackwall Yard, London | 4 February 1874 | Sold 1889[2][5] |
| Egeria | Pembroke Dock | 1 November 1873 | Sold 1911 [2][6] |
| Flying Fish | Chatham Dockyard[1] | 27 November 1873 | Sold 1888[2][7] |
| Sappho | Money Wigram & Sons, Blackwall Yard[1] | 20 October 1873 | Sold 1887[2][8] |
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