HMS Barracouta (1851)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Barracouta.
HMS Barracouta was the last paddle sloop built for the Royal Navy. She was built at Pembroke Dockyard and launched in 1851. She served in the Pacific theatre of the Crimean War, in the Second Opium War and in the Anglo-Ashanti wars. She paid off for the last time in 1877 and was broken up in 1881.
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Barracouta and the boats of HMS Calcutta engaging mandarin junks in the capture of the French Folly Fort in China on 6 November 1856 | |
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Name | HMS Barracouta |
Ordered | 25 April 1847 |
Builder | Pembroke Dockyard |
Cost | £50,042[Note 1] |
Laid down | May 1849 |
Launched | 31 March 1851 |
Commissioned | 30 July 1853 |
Out of service | 1877 |
Fate | Broken up in 1881 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Type | Paddle sloop |
Displacement | 1,676 tons |
Tons burthen | 1,048 40/94 bm |
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Beam | 35 ft 0 in (10.7 m) oa |
Depth of hold | 20 ft 5 in (6.2 m) |
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Propulsion |
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Sail plan | Barque-rigged |
Speed | 10.5 kn (19.4 km/h) |
Complement | 100 |
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