Miranda (left) and Fawn (right) during the Regatta of January 1862 ("the race of the Maori war canoes") |
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| Name: | HMS Fawn |
| Ordered: | 27 March 1852 |
| Builder: | Deptford Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 4 May 1854 |
| Launched: | 30 September 1856 |
| Commissioned: | 26 November 1859 |
| Decommissioned: | 1884 |
| Fate: | Survey ship from 1876 Sold in 1884 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Cruizer-class screw sloop |
| Displacement: | 1,045 tons [1] |
| Tons burthen: | 747 51/94 bm[1] |
| Length: | 160 ft (49 m) (gundeck) 140 ft 1.75 in (42.7165 m) (keel) |
| Beam: | 31 ft 10 in (9.70 m)[1] |
| Draught: | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 17 ft 6 in (5.33 m)[1] |
| Installed power: | 100 nominal horsepower 434 ihp (324 kW)[1] |
| Propulsion: |
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| Sail plan: | Barque-rigged |
| Speed: | 8.7 kn (16.1 km/h) |
| Armament: |
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HMS Fawn was a Royal Navy 17-gun Cruizer-class sloop launched in 1856. She served on the Australia, North America and Pacific stations before being converted to a survey ship in 1876. She was sold and broken up in 1884.
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Fawn was launched on 30 September 1856 from Deptford Dockyard.[2]
She was commissioned at Sheerness on 30 October 1859 and until 1863 served on the Australia Station.[3]
She refitted at Sheerness in 1863, and from 1864 to 1868 served on the North America and West Indies Station.[3]
After a second refit at Sheerness in 1869 she went to the Pacific Station, where she remained until 1875.[3]
In 1876 she was converted to a survey ship, and in this role she surveyed areas of the east coast of Africa, the Sea of Marmara and the Mediterranean.[3]
On 6 April 1883 she paid off, and she was sold for breaking the next year.[1]
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