HMS Briton (1869)
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History | |
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Name | HMS Briton |
Builder | Sheerness Dockyard |
Laid down | 1868 |
Launched | 6 November 1869 |
Completed | November 1871 |
Fate | Sold, 1887 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Briton-class wooden screw corvette |
Displacement | 1,831 long tons (1,860 t) |
Tons burthen | 1,322 bm |
Length | 220 ft (67.1 m) (p/p) |
Beam | 36 ft (11.0 m) |
Draught | 16 ft 6 in (5.0 m) |
Depth of hold | 21 ft 6 in (6.6 m) |
Installed power | 2,149 ihp (1,603 kW) |
Propulsion |
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Sail plan | Ship rig |
Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
Complement | 220 |
Armament |
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HMS Briton was a Briton-class wooden screw corvette built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s.
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Bibliography
- Ballard, G. A. (1938). "British Corvettes of 1875: The Larger Ram-Bowed Type". Mariner's Mirror. 24 (January). Cambridge, UK: Society for Nautical Research: 81–94.
- Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
- 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.