&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Alecto_and_Rattler.jpg) Rattler (left) and Alecto (right) in their 1845 competition
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| Name | HMS Rattler |
| Ordered | 24 February 1842[2] |
| Builder | Sheerness Dockyard |
| Cost | £9,400 plus £17,413 for fitting[2] |
| Laid down | April 1842[2] |
| Launched | 13 April 1843[2] |
| Commissioned | 12 December 1844[3] Woolwich |
| Honours and awards | Burma 1852[1] |
| Fate | Broken up, 1856 |
| General characteristics [2] | |
| Class and type | Screw sloop[4] |
| Displacement | 1,112 tons |
| Tons burthen | 88880⁄94 (bm)[2] |
| Length | 195 ft (59.44 m) overall
176 ft 6 in (53.80 m) gundeck, 157 ft 9.5 in (48.09 m) keel for tonnage |
| Beam | 32 ft 8 in (9.96 m) maximum, 32 ft 6 in (9.91 m) for tonnage |
| Draught | 11 ft 5+1⁄2 in (3.49 m) (mean) |
| Depth of hold | 18 ft 7.5 in (5.68 m) |
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| Sail plan | Barquentine |
| Speed | 10.074 knots (18.657 km/h) |
| Complement | 180 |
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HMS Rattler was a 9-gun steam screw sloop of the Royal Navy, and one of the first British warships to be completed with screw propulsion. She was originally ordered as a paddle wheel 4-gun steam vessel (Steam Vessel Second Class – SV2) from Sheerness Dockyard on 12 March 1841. She was reordered on 24 February 1842 as a propeller type 9-gun (867-ton BM type) sloop from HM Royal Dockyard, Sheerness, as a new vessel. William Symonds had redesigned the ship as a screw propeller driven vessel.[3]
She was the fifth ship so named since the name was first introduced into the Royal Navy for a 16-gun sloop launched by Wilson of Sandgate on 22 March 1783 and sold on 6 September 1792.[5]
- ^ Rif Winfield, Battles and Campaigns
- ^ a b c d e f Winfield (2004), p.210
- ^ a b Rif Winfield, Battles and Campaigns, Chapter 12
- ^ College, p. 287.
- ^ Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.