Pearl class (1855)
 Corvette HMS Challenger
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The Pearl- class was a British class of corvettes . The ten wooden flat-deck screw-propelled corvettes of the Pearl class were based on a design by the English Surveyor's Department, which was confirmed on November 18, 1853. The Pearl class had a planned total length of 68.65 meters and was 12.29 meters wide. The armament consisted of 20 20.3 cm cannons in a broad-side position and a 25.4 cm cannon mounted in a rotatable position on the bow. The Pearl class was powered by a horizontal two-cylinder steam engine with simple expansion and an output of 400 nhp via a single propeller .
Pearl- class ships :
| Surname | Commissioning | Whereabouts |
|---|---|---|
| HMS Satellite | 1855 | Canceled in 1879 |
| HMS Pearl | 1856 | Canceled in 1884 |
| HMS Cadmus | 1856 | Canceled in 1879 |
| HMS Pelorus | 1857 | Canceled in 1869 |
| HMS Racoon | 1858 | Canceled in 1877 |
| HMS Scylla | 1859 | Canceled in 1882 |
| HMS Clio | 1859 | Canceled in 1919 |
| HMS Charybdis | 1860 | Sold in 1884 |
| HMS Challenger | 1861 | Canceled in 1921 |
The ships Pearl , Satellite and Cadmus were originally ordered under the designation " Frigates " with 1,390 tons, but the design was expanded to 1,462 tons in November 1853. The order for the Cadmus replaced an older order for the sailing corvette Coquette from the Chatham shipyard in 1834, which was never formally canceled.
The Carybdis was loaned to the Canadian government from October 1880 to August 1882 as a training ship .
The Challenger was used from 1872 to 1876 for an oceanographic research trip around the world and so went down in history.
literature
- David Lion, Rif Winfield: Sail & Steam Navy List. All The Ships Of The Royal Navy 1815–1889. Chatham Publishing in association with the National Maritime Museum, London 2004, ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6 , p. 209.