HMS Druid (1869)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Druid.
Career (UK)
Name: HMS Druid
Builder: Deptford Dockyard
Laid down: 1868
Launched: 13 March 1869
Completed: By February 1872
Fate: Sold to Castle for breaking up at Charlton on 10 November 1886
General characteristics
Class and type: Briton-class wooden screw corvette
Displacement: 1,730/1,860
Tons burthen: 1,322 bm
Length: 220 ft (67.1 m) pp
Beam: 36 ft (11.0 m)
Draught: 12.35 ft (3.8 m) (forward)
16.25 ft (5.0 m) (aft)
Depth of hold: 21 ft 6 in (6.6 m)
Installed power: 2,272 ihp (1,694 kW)
350 nominal horsepower[1]
Propulsion:
  • 2-cyl. (67in diam., 33in stroke) horizontal single-expansion steam engine
  • 4 rectangular boilers (30lbs/sq.in pressure)
  • Single screw
Speed: 13 knots (24 km/h)
Endurance: 255 tons coal[1]
Complement: 220
Armament:

10 guns

  • 2 x 7in/112pdr (6½-ton) muzzle-loading rifles on slides, fore and aft
  • 8 x 6.3in/64pdr (71cwt) muzzle-loading rifles on broadside trucks

HMS Druid was a Briton-class wooden screw corvette of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 13 March 1869 at Deptford Dockyard, the last ship to be built there, [2] and was sold for breaking in 1886.

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Fate

She was sold for breaking up to Castle of Charlton on 10 November 1886.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Winfield, Rif; Lyon, David (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.  p.288
  2. ^ a b Lyon & Winfield. "9". The Sail and Steam Navy List. p. 57. 

References

External links

Briton-class corvette
Druid · Briton · Thetis
Preceded by: Juno-class corvette · Followed by: Volage-class corvette
List of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy