HMS Harrier (1854)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Harrier.
HMS Harrier was a Royal Navy Cruizer-class screw sloop launched in 1854. She took part in the Crimean War, served on the Australia Station and took part in the New Zealand Wars. She was broken up in 1865
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Cruizer, sister-ship to Harrier | |
History | |
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Name | HMS Harrier |
Ordered | 18 July 1851[1] |
Builder | Pembroke Dockyard |
Laid down | November 1851[1] |
Launched | 13 May 1854 |
Commissioned | 3 November 1854[1] |
Decommissioned | 1866 |
Fate | Broken up at Portsmouth in 1866 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Cruizer-class screw sloop |
Displacement | 1,045 tons [1] |
Tons burthen | 747 51/94 bm[1] |
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Beam | 31 ft 10 in (9.70 m)[1] |
Depth of hold | 17 ft 6 in (5.33 m)[1] |
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Propulsion |
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Sail plan | Barque-rigged |
Speed | 8.3 kn (15.4 km/h) |
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