HMS Galatea (1859)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Galatea.

HMS Galatea pictured c.1868.
History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Galatea
Ordered9 April 1856
Builder
Laid down2 February 1857
Launched14 September 1859
CompletedBy February 1862
FateBroken up in June 1883
General characteristics
Class and typeJason-class corvette
Displacement4,686 tons
Tons burthen3,227 bm
Length
  • 280 ft (85.3 m) (overall)
  • 245 ft 8 in (74.9 m) (keel)
Beam50 ft (15.2 m)
Depth of hold19 ft 4 in (5.89 m)
Propulsion
  • Sails
  • 2-cyl. horizontal single expansion
  • Rectangular boilers
  • Single screw
  • 800 nhp
  • 3,061 ihp = 11.796 kn
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement450
Armament
  • Middle deck: 24 × 10 in (85 cwt) MLSB shell guns (broadside)
  • Upper deck: 2 × 68-pdr (65 cwt) MLSB (pivot-mounted)
  • Later replaced by slide-mounted 110-pdr Armstrong BLs

HMS Galatea was a Jason-class[1] 26-gun, sixth-rate, wooden screw frigate in the Royal Navy, launched in 1859 and broken up 1883.

  1. ^ Winfield, Rif (30 April 2014). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1817-1863: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. ISBN 9781473849624.