Plover-class gunvessel
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Plover class |
| Operators: |
 Royal Navy |
| Preceded by: | Cormorant class |
| Succeeded by: | Beacon class |
| Built: | 1867–1871 |
| Completed: | 12 |
| Scrapped: | 12 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Type: | Wooden screw gunvessel |
| Displacement: | 805 long tons (818 t) |
| Tons burthen: | 663 bm |
| Length: | 170 ft (51.8 m) (p/p) |
| Beam: | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
| Draught: | 10 ft 6 in (3.2 m) |
| Depth: | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
| Installed power: | 857–985 ihp (639–735 kW) |
| Propulsion: |
2 shafts 2 × 2-cylinder horizontal steam engines 4 × boilers |
| Sail plan: | Barque rig |
| Speed: | 10–11 knots (19–20 km/h; 12–13 mph) |
| Complement: | 90 |
| Armament: |
1 × 7-inch rifled muzzle-loading gun 2 × 40-pounder Rifled beechloading guns |
The Plover-class gunvessels were a class of wooden gunboats built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s. They mostly served overseas and were retired early as they were regarded as hopelessly obsolete by the late 1880s.
Ships
| Ship | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Plover | Deptford Dockyard[1] | NA[2] | 20 February 1867[2] | NA[2] | Sold for breaking, August 1885[2] |
| HMS Ringdove | Portsmouth Dockyard[1] | NA[2] | 4 September 1867[2] | NA[2] | Sold for breaking, 17 May 1882[2] |
| HMS Philomel | Deptford Dockyard[1] | NA[2] | 29 October 1867[2] | NA[2] | Sold at Bombay, 14 April 1886[2] |
| HMS Lapwing | Devonport Dockyard[1] | 21 January 1867[2] | 8 November 1867[2] | 27 June 1868[2] | Sold for breaking, 15 April 1885[2] |
| HMS Magpie | Portsmouth Dockyard[1] | NA[2] | 12 February 1868[2] | NA[2] | Survey vessel in 1878. Sold, September 1885[2] |
| HMS Bullfinch | Sheerness Dockyard[1] | NA[2] | 13 February 1868[2] | NA[2] | Sold for breaking, June 1885[2] |
| HMS Seagull | Devonport Dockyard[1] | 15 April 1867[2] | 6 March 1868[2] | 19 April 1871[2] | Sold for breaking, November 1887[2] |
| HMS Curlew | Deptford Dockyard[1] | NA[2] | 20 August 1868[2] | NA[2] | Sold for breaking, 7 November 1882[2] |
| HMS Swallow | Portsmouth Dockyard[1] | NA[2] | 16 November 1868[2] | NA[2] | Sold, 18 October 1882[2] |
| HMS Bittern | Pembroke Dockyard[1] | NA[2] | 20 September 1869[2] | NA[2] | Sold for breaking, November 1887[2] |
| HMS Vulture | Sheerness Dockyard[1] | NA[2] | 6 November 1869[2] | NA[2] | Sold for breaking, September 1885[2] |
| HMS Woodlark | Chatham Dockyard[1] | NA[2] | 9 March 1871[2] | NA[2] | Sold at Bombay, 9 March 1887[2] |
Notes
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 Chesneau & Kolesnik, p. 109
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 2.30 2.31 2.32 2.33 2.34 2.35 2.36 2.37 2.38 2.39 2.40 2.41 2.42 2.43 2.44 2.45 2.46 2.47 Lyon & Winfield, p. 293
Bibliography
- Ballard, G. A. (1940). "British Gunvessels of 1875: The Larger Twin-Screw Type". Mariner's Mirror (Cambridge, UK: Society for Nautical Research) 26 (January): 15–32.
- Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
- Winfield, Rif; Lyon, David (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.
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