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Class overview
Name: Gleaner class
Operators:  Royal Navy
Succeeded by: Dapper class
Built: 1854
In commission: 1854 – 1864
Completed: 6
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General characteristics [1]
Type: 'Crimean' gunboat
Tons burthen: 215 5394 tons bm
Length: 100 ft (30 m) (gundeck)
86 ft 4 in (26.31 m) (keel)
Beam: 22 ft 0 in (6.71 m)
Draught: 7 ft 10 in (2.39 m)
Installed power: 60 nominal horsepower
270 ihp (200 kW))
Propulsion:
  • 2-cylinder horizontal single expansion steam engine
  • Single screw
Speed: 7.5 kn (13.9 km/h)
Crew: 36
Armament:

The Gleaner (or Pelter) class gunboat was a class of six gunboats built for the Royal Navy in 1854 for use in the Crimean War.[1]

Design[]

The Gleaner class was designed by W.H. Walker (who also designed the subsequent Dapper and Albacore classes). The ships were wooden-hulled, with steam power as well as sails, but of shallow draught for coastal bombardment in the shallow waters of the Baltic and Black Sea during the Crimean War.[1]

Propulsion[]

Two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engines built by John Penn and Sons, with two boilers, provided 60 nominal horsepower through a single screw, sufficient for 7.5 knots (13.9 km/h; 8.6 mph).[1]

Armament[]

Ships of the class were armed with one 68-pounder smooth bore muzzle loading cannon (SBML), one 32-pounder SBML (originally two 68-pounder SBMLs were planned but the forward gun was substituted by a 32-pounder) and two 24-pounder howitzers.[1]

Ships[]

Name Ship builder[1] Launched[1] Fate[1]
Pelter W & H Pitcher, Northfleet 28 August 1854 Sold for breaking January 1864, breaking up completed by Tolpult on 1 February 1864
Pincher W & H Pitcher, Northfleet 5 September 1854 Breaking completed on 17 February 1864
Badger W & H Pitcher, Northfleet 23 September 1854 Broken up at Portsmouth in June 1864
Snapper W & H Pitcher, Northfleet 4 October 1854 Became a coal hulk in 1865, sold in 1906
Gleaner Deptford Dockyard 7 October 1854 Sold at Montevideo in April 1868
Ruby Deptford Dockyard 7 October 1854 Broken up October 1868

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Winfield, p.223



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