Satellite-class sloop

	Satellite
Class overview
Name	Satellite-class sloops
Builders	Devonport Dockyard; Sheerness Dockyard;
Operators	Royal Navy; Irish Free State;
Cost	£62,900 (Satellite) - £71,000 (Caroline)
Built	1883–1888
In commission	1883–1947
Completed	7
General characteristics
Displacement	1,420 tons
Length	200 ft (61 m)
Beam	38 ft (12 m)
Draught	15.7 ft (4.8 m)
Installed power	1,400 hp (1,044 kW)
Propulsion	Horizontal compound expansion steam engine; Single screw;
Sail plan	Barque-rigged
Range	Approximately 6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h)
Complement	170-200
Armament	As designed:; Two BL 6-inch/100-pounder (81cwt) Mk II guns; Ten BL 5-inch (127.0 mm) 50-pounder (38cwt) guns; One light gun; Four machine guns; Heroine, Hyacinth, Royalist & Satellite:; Eight BL 6-inch/100-pounder (81cwt) Mk II guns; One light gun; Four machine guns;
Armour	Internal steel deck over machinery and magazines

The Satellite class was a class of 12-gun composite sloops built for the Royal Navy between 1883 and 1888, and reclassified as corvettes in 1884.

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