HMS Hornet (1854)

Hornet's sister ship, Cruizer, shown at Malta in 1894.
History
United Kingdom
Name	Hornet
Ordered	1 November 1850[2]
Builder	Royal Dockyard, Deptford
Cost	£29,142[2]
Launched	13 April 1854[1]
Commissioned	14 July 1854[2]
Fate	Broken up 1868
General characteristics
Class and type	Cruizer-class screw sloop
Displacement	1,045 tons [2]
Tons burthen	747+51⁄94 bm[2]
Length	160 ft (49 m) (gundeck) 140 ft 1.75 in (42.7165 m) (keel)
Beam	31 ft 10 in (9.70 m)[2]
Depth of hold	17 ft 6 in (5.33 m)[2]
Installed power	100 nominal horsepower 233 ihp (174 kW)[2]
Propulsion	Two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine Single screw[2]
Sail plan	Barque-rigged
Speed	7.75 knots (14.35 km/h; 8.92 mph)
Armament	One 32 pdr (56 cwt) pivot gun Sixteen 32 pdr (32 cwt) carriage guns

HMS Hornet was a 17-gun wooden screw sloop of the Cruizer class of the Royal Navy, launched in 1854 and broken up in 1868.