HMS Briton (1869)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Briton.

History

UK
Name:	HMS Briton
Builder:	Sheerness Dockyard
Laid down:	1868
Launched:	6 November 1869
Completed:	November 1871
Fate:	Sold, 1887
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type:	Briton-class wooden screw corvette
Displacement:	1,831 long tons (1,860 t)
Tons burthen:	1,322 bm
Length:	220 ft (67.1 m) (p/p)
Beam:	36 ft (11.0 m)
Draught:	16 ft 6 in (5.0 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft 6 in (6.6 m)
Installed power:	2,149 ihp (1,603 kW)
Propulsion:	1 × shaft 1 × 2-cylinder compound expansion steam engine 6 × cylindrical boilers
Sail plan:	Ship rig
Speed:	13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement:	220
Armament:	2 × 7-inch rifled muzzle-loading guns 8 × 6.3-inch 64-pounder rifled muzzle-loading guns

HMS Briton was a Briton-class wooden screw corvette built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s.

Notes

Ballard, G. A. (1938). "British Corvettes of 1875: The Larger Ram-Bowed Type". The Mariner's Mirror. Cambridge, UK: Society for Nautical Research. 24 (January): 81–94. doi:10.1080/00253359.1938.10657269.
Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
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.

Briton-class corvette

Druid Briton Thetis

Preceded by: Juno class Followed by: Volage class List of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy

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