HMS Pioneer (1856)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Pioneer
Ordered	18 April 1855
Builder	Pembroke Dockyard
Laid down	July 1855
Launched	19 January 1856
Commissioned	31 May 1856
Decommissioned	October 1864
Fate	Sold for breaking up at Plymouth in 1865
General characteristics
Class and type	Intrepid-class gunvessel
Tons burthen	868 49/94 bm
Length	200 ft (61 m) pp
Beam	30 ft 4 in (9.25 m)
Depth of hold	14 ft 6 in (4.42 m)
Installed power	1,150 ihp (860 kW)[1]
Propulsion	2-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine Single screw
Sail plan	Barque
Speed	11.3 knots (20.9 km/h)
Complement	100
Armament	As built: 1 × 68-pounder muzzle-loading rifle 4 × 32-pounder (25cwt) muzzle-loading smoothbore guns Later: 1 × 7-inch/110-pounder breech loader 1 × 40-pounder breech loader 4 × 20 pounder breech loaders[1]

HMS Pioneer was a 4-gun Intrepid-class gunvessel launched on 19 January 1856 from the Pembroke Dockyard.^[2] She saw active service in China and was decommissioned in 1864.