HMS Peterel (1860)

Rosario-class sloop Peterel
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Peterel
Ordered	1 April 1857
Builder	Devonport Dockyard
Laid down	5 December 1859
Launched	10 November 1860
Completed	March 1862
Reclassified	Lightship in December 1877 Coal hulk in December 1885
Fate	Sold in October 1901
General characteristics
Class and type	Rosario-class sloop
Displacement	913 tons
Tons burthen	668 76⁄94 bm
Length	160 ft (49 m) (gundeck) 139 ft 8.5 in (42.583 m) (keel)
Beam	30 ft 4 in (9.25 m)
Draught	15 ft 10 in (4.83 m)
Depth of hold	18 ft 11 in (5.77 m)
Propulsion	Sails 2-cylinder horizontal single expansion engine Single screw 150 nhp 478 ihp
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship (as built) Barque-rigged (after 1869)
Speed	8.982 knots (16.635 km/h; 10.336 mph) (under engines)
Complement	130–150
Armament	As built 1 × 40-pdr Armstrong BL 6 × 32-pdr MLSB 4 × 20-pdr Armstrong BL After 1869 1 × 7 in ML 2 × 40-pdrs

HMS Peterel was a Rosario-class sloop of the Royal Navy.

Peterel served three commissions as a warship, on the North America and West Indies Station, the Cape of Good Hope Station and the Pacific Station. In 1877 she became a lightship marking the wreck of HMS Vanguard, then in 1885 she was converted into a coal depot before finally being sold in 1901, the longest lived of her class.

The ship's figurehead has survived and after restoration in 2005 was placed on display at the Apprentice Exhibition in the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.^[1]