Fantome-class sloop

	HMS Egeria
Class overview
Name	Fantome-class sloops
Builders	Pembroke Dock; Blackwall Yard; Chatham Dockyard; Money Wigram & Sons;
Operators	Royal Navy
Preceded by	Eclipse class
Succeeded by	Osprey class
Cost	Egeria:; Hull £32,468, machinery £10,414;
Built	1873–1874
In commission	1873–1911
Completed	6
Scrapped	6
General characteristics
Type	Screw composite sloop
Displacement	949 long tons (964 t)
Tons burthen	727 bm
Length	160 ft (48.8 m) (p/p)
Beam	31 ft 4 in (9.6 m)
Draught	14 ft (4.3 m)
Depth	15 ft 6 in (4.7 m)
Installed power	836–1,011 ihp (623–754 kW)
Propulsion	1 shaft; 1 × 2-cylinder horizontal compound expansion steam engine; 3 × cylindrical boilers;
Sail plan	Barque rig
Speed	10–11 knots (19–20 km/h; 12–13 mph)
Range	1,000 nmi (1,900 km; 1,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	140
Armament	2 × 7-inch rifled muzzle-loading guns; 2 × 6.3-inch 64-pounder rifled muzzle-loading guns;

The Fantome class was a six-ship class of 4-gun screw composite sloops built for the Royal Navy during 1873 and 1874.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.