HMS Peterel (1860)

Rosario-class sloop Peterel
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Peterel
Ordered1 April 1857
BuilderDevonport Dockyard
Laid down5 December 1859
Launched10 November 1860
CompletedMarch 1862
Reclassified
  • Lightship in December 1877
  • Coal hulk in December 1885
FateSold in October 1901
General characteristics
Class and typeRosario-class sloop
Displacement913 tons
Tons burthen668 7694 bm
Length
  • 160 ft (49 m) (gundeck)
  • 139 ft 8.5 in (42.583 m) (keel)
Beam30 ft 4 in (9.25 m)
Draught15 ft 10 in (4.83 m)
Depth of hold18 ft 11 in (5.77 m)
Propulsion
  • Sails
  • 2-cylinder horizontal single expansion engine
  • Single screw
  • 150 nhp
  • 478 ihp
Sail plan
Speed8.982 knots (16.635 km/h; 10.336 mph) (under engines)
Complement130–150
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]