Paddle steamer HMS Salamander towing a frigate out of Corunna, Spain, by Joseph Schranz
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Salamander |
Namesake | Salamander |
Ordered | 12 January 1831 |
Builder | Sheerness Dockyard |
Cost | £34,334 |
Laid down | April 1831 |
Launched | 14 May 1832 |
Completed | 12 February 1833 |
Commissioned | 27 November 1832 |
Honours and awards | Second Burmese War 1852 |
Fate | Broken up at Sheerness in 1883 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Paddle sloop |
Displacement | 1,014 tons |
Tons burthen | 818 bm |
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Depth of hold | 17 ft (5.2 m) |
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Sail plan | Schooner rig, later changed to barquentine |
Speed | 7.2 knots (13.3 km/h) (under steam) |
Complement | 135 |
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HMS Salamander was one of the initial steam powered vessels built for the Royal Navy. On 10 January 1831 the First Sea Lord gave orders that four paddle vessels be built to competitive designs. The vessels were to be powered by Maudslay, Son & Field steam engines, carry a schooner rig and mount one or two 10-inch shell guns.[1] Initially classed simply as a steam vessel (SV), she was re-classed as a second-class steam sloop when that categorization was introduced on 31 May 1844. Designed by Joseph Seaton, the Master Shipwright of Sheerness, she was initially slated to be built in Portsmouth, and was changed to Sheerness Dockyard. She was launched and completed in 1832, took part in the Second Anglo-Burmese War and was broken up in 1883.
Salamander was the eighth named ship since it was introduced for a Scottish ship captured in 1544 and listed until 1559.[2]