| HMS Brisk (1851) | |
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 Brisk captures the slave ship Emanuela | |
| Career (UK) |  |
| Name: | HMS Brisk |
| Ordered: | 25 April 1847 |
| Builder: | Woolwich Dockyard |
| Cost: | £47,482[1][Note 1] |
| Laid down: | January 1849 |
| Launched: | 2 June 1851 |
| Completed: | 24 August 1853 at Devonport Dockyard |
| Commissioned: | 24 May 1853 |
| Decommissioned: | 19 January 1869 |
| Fate: | Sold on 31 January 1870 |
| General characteristics as built[1] | |
| Type: | Screw sloop (corvette from 1862) |
| Displacement: | 1,474 long tons (1,498 t) |
| Tons burthen: |
Design: 1,074 81/94 bm As built: 1,087 bm |
| Length: |
193 ft 7 1⁄4 in (59.0 m) (gundeck) 169 ft 9 1⁄4 in (51.7 m) (keel) |
| Beam: | 35 ft (10.7 m) |
| Draught: | 13 ft 9 in (4.2 m) (mean) |
| Depth of hold: | 20 ft 5 1⁄2 in (6.2 m) |
| Installed power: |
250 nominal horsepower 505 ihp (377 kW) (From 1864: 200 nhp & 837 ihp |
| Propulsion: |
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| Speed: |
7.35 kn (13.61 km/h) (From 1864: 10 kn (19 km/h)) |
| Armament: |
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HMS Brisk was a 14-gun wooden-hulled screw sloop of the Royal Navy, launched on 2 June 1851 from Woolwich Dockyard.[2] She served in the Crimean War and as part of the West African anti-piracy patrol, as well as during the New Zealand land wars. She was sold in 1870.
Construction[]
Ordered from Woolwich Dockyard on 17 February 1847 to the same design as Rattler, she was re-ordered as an enlarged version on 25 April 1847. She was laid down in January 1849 and launched on 2 June 1851.[1]
Service[]
She was sent to the North America and West Indies Station in 1853, before participating in the White Sea blockading Archangel, and then operations on the Russian Pacific coast during the Crimean War in 1854. She was then assigned to the Pacific Station between 1854 and 1857. Between 1859 and 1862, she served with the Cape of Good Hope Station and then was assigned to the West Africa Squadron. From October 1864 she was assigned to the Australia Station where she undertook escort duties during the New Zealand land wars before leaving the Australia Station in 1868.[2][3]
Fate[]
She was decommissioned on 19 January 1869 and sold on 31 January 1870 for commercial service.[2]
Notes[]
- ↑ A total cost accounting for inflation of approximately £4,643,200 in today's money.
Citations[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Winfield (2004), p.213.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Bastock, p.27.
- ↑ "HMS Brisk". http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=143. Retrieved 2010-04-02.
References[]
- Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 0-86777-348-0
- 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.
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