HMS Stromboli (1839)

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

History
RN EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Stromboli
Ordered12 March 1838
BuilderRoyal Dockyard, Portsmouth
Cost£41,240
Laid downSeptember 1838
Launched27 August 1839
Completed6 September 1840
Commissioned18 July 1840
Honours and
awards
  • Acre 1840
  • Baltic 1854
  • Crimea/Black Sea 1855
  • Sea of Azov 1855
FateSold for breaking August 1866
General characteristics
Type
  • Steam Vessels (SV2)
  • First Class Sloop
Displacement1,283 tons
Tons burthen965+79⁄94 bm
Length
  • 180 ft 1.575 in (54.9 m) gundeck
  • 157 ft 2.75 in (47.9 m) keel for tonnage
Beam
  • 34 ft 4 in (10.5 m) maximum
  • 34 ft 0 in (10.4 m) for tonnage
Draught
  • 13 ft 0 in (4.0 m) (forward)
  • 13 ft 5 in (4.1 m) (aft)
Depth of hold21 ft 0 in (6.4 m)
Installed power280 nominal horsepower
Propulsion
  • 2-cylinder side lever steam engine
  • Paddles
Sail plan3-masted barque rigged
Complement149 (later 160)
Armament
  • As built:
  • 2 × 10-inch (84 cwt) shell guns
  • 2 × 68-pdrs (64 cwt) carronades
  • 2 × 42-pdr (22 cwt) carronades
  • From 1856:
  • 1 × 68-pdr (84 cwt) MLSB guns
  • 4 × 32-pdr (42 cwt) MLSB guns
  • 1860s
  • 1 × 110-pounder pivot gun
  • 4 × 32-pdr (42 cwt) MLSB guns

HMS Stromboli was initially a Steam Vessel second class (later reclassed as a First Class Sloop) designed by Sir William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy, and built at Portsmouth. She was commissioned and participated in the bombardment of Acre in 1840, during the Russian War she was used as a troop transport in the Baltic in 1854, she was in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov in 1855. Her last overseas posting was on the South East Coast of America. She was sold for breaking in August 1866.[1]

Stromboli was the only vessel of this name in the Royal Navy.[2]

  1. ^ Winfield
  2. ^ Colledge, Stromboli