HMS Bloodhound (1845)

For other ships with 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 and type: Second-class gunvessel
Tons burthen: 378 10/94 bm
Length:
  • 146 ft (44.5 m) (overall)
  • 134 ft 4 12 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]

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Plans of Bloodhound

Notes

  1. 22 cwt is the weight of the gun ("cwt" = hundredweight)

References

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