HMS Fawn (1856)

HMS Fawn Caught in a White Squall, Bass Straits, Australia by Richard Brydges Beechey, 1880
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Fawn
Ordered	27 March 1852
Builder	Deptford Dockyard
Laid down	4 May 1854
Launched	30 September 1856
Commissioned	26 November 1859
Decommissioned	1884
Fate	Survey ship from 1876 Sold in 1884
General characteristics
Class and type	Cruizer-class screw sloop
Displacement	1,045 tons [1]
Tons burthen	747+51⁄94 bm[1]
Length	160 ft (49 m) (gundeck) 140 ft 1.75 in (42.7165 m) (keel)
Beam	31 ft 10 in (9.70 m)[1]
Draught	11 ft (3.4 m)
Depth of hold	17 ft 6 in (5.33 m)[1]
Installed power	100 nominal horsepower 434 ihp (324 kW)[1]
Propulsion	Two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine Single screw[1]
Sail plan	Barque-rigged
Speed	8.7 knots (16.1 km/h; 10.0 mph)
Armament	One 32 pdr (56 cwt) pivot gun Sixteen 32 pdr (32 cwt) carriage guns

HMS Fawn was a Royal Navy 17-gun Cruizer-class sloop launched in 1856. She served on the Australia, North America and Pacific stations before being converted to a survey ship in 1876. She was sold and broken up in 1884.