HMS Bloodhound (1845)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Bloodhound.

History

UK
Name:	HMS Bloodhound
Ordered:	16 January 1844
Builder:	Robert Napier and Sons, Govan
Yard number:	10
Laid down:	1844
Launched:	9 January 1845
Commissioned:	26 September 1845
Reclassified:	Fitted as a tender to Sampson, 1849-51
Fate:	Broken up in 1866
General characteristics ^[1]
Class & type:	Second-class gunvessel
Tons burthen:	378 10/94 bm
Length:	146 ft (44.5 m) (overall) 134 ft 4 ¹⁄₂ in (41.0 m) (keel)
Beam:	23 ft (7.0 m)
Depth of hold:	13 ft 6 in (4.11 m)
Propulsion:	2-cylinder side-lever engine 150 nhp
Sail plan:	2-masted schooner
Complement:	60
Armament:	1 × 18-pounder (22cwt)^{[Note 1]} carronade on pivot 2 × 24-pounder (13cwt) carronades

HMS Bloodhound was an iron-hulled paddle gunvessel of the Royal Navy. She was built by Robert Napier at Govan, to a design drawn up by the builder.^[2] She was fitted as a tender to the paddle frigate Sampson at Portsmouth between 1849 and 1851, and was broken up in 1866.^[3]^[1]

External images
Plans of Bloodhound

Notes

↑ 22 cwt is the weight of the gun ("cwt" = hundredweight)

References

1 2 Winfield (2004), p. 176
↑ Launched 1845: HMS Bloodhound, Shipping Times Clydebuilt database, accessed 10 December 2011
↑ Colledge. Ships of the Royal Navy. p. 42.

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
Winfield, Rif & Lyon, David (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.

Royal Navy paddle gunvessels (1831 - 1850)

Wooden paddle gunvessels	Pluto Firebrand class Firefly class Tartarus class Lizard class Porcupine Spitfire

Iron paddle gunvessels	Jackal class Torch class Bloodhound Myrmidon Grappler Recruit class

List of gunboat and gunvessel classes of the Royal Navy

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