History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Desperate |
Ordered | 9 May 1845 |
Builder | Pembroke Dockyard |
Laid down | October 1845 |
Launched | 23 May 1849 |
Commissioned | 12 April 1852 |
Honours and awards | Baltic 1854 - 55, Crimea, Black Sea 1855[1] |
Fate | Broken at Devonport Dockyard August 1865 |
General characteristics [2] | |
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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HMS Desperate was originally slated to be built to the Sampson designed steam vessel rated as a Steam Vessel First Class (SV1); however, the Admiralty, first rerated the vessels as First Class Sloops on 19 April 1845 then on the 9 May 1845, she was ordered as First-Class screw sloops to be built from a design of Sir William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy.[3] She would be a 10-gun vessel with 400 NHP engines. She served in the Baltic during the Crimean war, and as a store ship to Edward Augustus Inglefield's Arctic expedition. She was broken up by 1865.[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.[4]