HMS Cormorant (1842)

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

History


Name:	HMS Cormorant
Ordered:	18 March 1841
Builder:	Sheerness Dockyard
Cost:	£44,898
Laid down:	17 May 1841
Launched:	13 January 1842
Commissioned:	8 February 1843
Fate:	Broken up on 17 August 1853
General characteristics
Class & type:	Driver-class wooden paddle sloop
Displacement:	1,590 tons
Tons burthen:	1,055 62/94 bm
Length:	180 ft (55 m)
Beam:	36 ft (11.0 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft (6.4 m)
Installed power:	280 nhp
Propulsion:	Seaward & Capel 2-cylinder direct-acting steam engine Paddles
Sail plan:	Brig-rigged
Complement:	149 (later 160)
Armament:	2 × 10-inch/42-pounder (84cwt) pivot guns 2 × 68-pounder guns (64cwt) 2 × 42-pounder (22cwt) guns

HMS Cormorant was a Driver-class wooden paddle sloop of the Royal Navy that operated from 1843 to 1853.

References

Lyon, David and Rif Winfield. The Sail and Steam Navy List: All of the Ships of the Royal Navy, 1815-1889. London: Chatham Publishing. 2004, p. 160.

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