HMS Porcupine (1844)
Appearance
![]() Bringing a dredge trawl back aboard HMS Porcupine, by Sir Charles Wyville Thomson
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History | |
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Name | HMS Porcupine |
Ordered | 11 November 1843[1] |
Builder | Deptford Dockyard |
Cost | Hull £7,997, fitting out £7,050[1] |
Launched | 17 June 1844[1] |
Commissioned | 19 August 1844[1] |
Fate |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Steam vessel, re-classified in 1844 as first-class steam gunvessel |
Displacement | 490 tons[2] |
Tons burthen | 381 68/94 bm |
Length |
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Beam | 24 ft 1.5 in (7.353 m) |
Depth of hold | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | |
Crew | 80[1] |
Armament |
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HMS Porcupine was a Royal Navy 3-gun wooden paddle steamer. It was built in Deptford Dockyard and served as a survey ship.[3]
Notes
- ^ The engine was removed from HMS Black Eagle (ex Firebrand)
References
Sources
- Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.
External links
- "HMS Porcupine at the Naval Database website". Retrieved 2010-11-29.
- "HMS Porcupine at the William Loney website". Retrieved 2010-11-29.