PS Rising Star
Paddle steamer warship / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
PS Rising Star was a paddle steamer warship, nicknamed the Rising Sun. The ship was seen as a revolutionary design[2] that included twin funnels and an internal retractable paddle wheel. She was the first ever steam warship to cross the Atlantic and the Magellan Strait from east to west in 1822.[3] She is also listed as the first steam-powered naval vessel and as the first steam-powered vessel in the Pacific.
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Rising Star | |
History | |
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Chile | |
Name | Rising Star |
Ordered | 1817 |
Builder | Blent's Yard, Rotherhithe, UK |
Cost | 7,000 pounds |
Launched | 1820 |
Sponsored by | Lord Cochrane |
Completed | 1821 |
Commissioned | 1822 |
Decommissioned | 1824 Sold to Winter and Brittain of Buenos Aires. |
Refit | 1826 steamers were removed |
Fate | Sank 1830 |
Notes | First steam warship ever built[1] |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 410 tonnes (400 long tons; 450 short tons) |
Propulsion | 70 hp (52 kW) |
Armament | 8 guns - 10 portholes for each broadside |
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Rising Star was built in Rotherhithe asked for Thomas Cochrane (later tenth Earl of Dundonald) in 1817,[4] who envisioned the military advantages that a warship of this type could offer in naval operations.