HMS Zebra (1860)

History
HMS Rinaldo, a sister-ship of Zebra

Name:	HMS Zebra
Builder:	Royal Dockyard, Deptford
Launched:	13 November 1860
Fate:	Sold out of service, 28 August 1873
General characteristics
Class & type:	Camelion-class sloop
Displacement:	1,365 tons
Length:	185 ft 0 in (56.4 m)
Beam:	33 ft 0 in (10.1 m)
Draught:	14 ft 8 in (4.5 m)
Installed power:	200 hp
Propulsion:	2-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine Single screw
Sail plan:	Barque-rigged
Speed:	9 knots (17 km/h)
Complement:	180
Armament:	5 × 40-pdr breech-loading guns 12 × 32-pdr muzzle-loading guns

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

HMS Zebra was the fourth ship to bear the name. She was a wooden-hulled screw-driven sloop of the Camelion class, launched on 13 November 1860, and was sold 13 years later in 1873.

References

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.

Camelion-class sloops

Completed ships	Camelion Pelican Rinaldo Zebra Perseus Chanticleer Reindeer Rattler

Cancelled ships	Harlequin Tees Sappho Diligence Imogene Success

Converted ships	Trent (completed as the ironclad sloop Research) Circassian (completed as the ironclad sloop Enterprise)

Preceded by: Greyhound class Followed by: Rosario class List of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy

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