Class overview | |
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Name | Conflict class |
Builders | Pembroke Dockyard |
Operators | Royal Navy |
Preceded by | HMS Niger |
Succeeded by | HMS Plumper |
Built | 1845—1849 |
In service | 1849—1865 |
Completed | 2 |
Cancelled | 2 |
Scrapped | 2 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Type | First-class sloop |
Displacement | 1,628 tons |
Tons burthen | 1,03869/94 bm |
Length |
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Beam | 34 ft 4 in (10.5 m) maximum, 34 ft 4 in (10.5 m) for tonnage |
Draught | 15 ft 9 in (4.8 m) mean |
Depth of hold | 22 ft 8+1⁄2 in (6.9 m) |
Installed power | |
Propulsion |
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Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Complement | 175 |
Armament |
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This group of vessels were originally slated to be built to the Sampson designed steam vessel; however, the Admiralty on 9 May 1845, ordered the first pair (Conflict and Desperate) as First-Class screw sloops to be built from a design of Sir William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy. This design would become known as the Conflict-class sloop. These would be 10-gun vessels with 400 NHP engines. The second pair of vessels (Enchantress and Falcon) were ordered on 26 March 1846 but after their keels were laid at Pembroke Dockyard, their construction was suspended in September 1846 then cancelled five years later, on 4 April 1851. Both completed ships served in the Baltic during the Crimean war, and Desperate briefly served as a store ship to Edward Augustus Inglefield's Arctic expedition. They had both been broken up by 1865.[1]
Conflict was the fourth named vessel since its introduction for a 12-gun gun brig launched by Dudman at Deptford on 17 April 1801 and wrecked on the French Coast on 24 October 1804.[2]
Desperate was the second named vessel since it was introduced for a 12-gun gun brig launched by White at Broadstairs on 2 January 1802, converted to a mortar brig in 1811 and sold on 15 December 1814.[3]
Enchantress was the second named vessel since it was introduced for a 14-gun sloop purchased in 1804, reduced to Harbour service in June 1813 and listed until August 1818.[4]
Falcon was the twenty-second named vessel since it was introduced for a Ballinger dating from 1342 and sold in 1352.[5]