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Racer-class Sloop
The ''Racer''-class sloop also known as the ''Cordelia'' class of swift cruisers was an 11-gun wooden screw sloop-of-war, sloop class of five ships built for the Royal Navy between 1855 and 1860. Design Built of a traditional wooden construction, the ''Racer'' class were a lengthened version of the , which in turn had been intended as "type of screw vessel below the Cruizer-class sloop, ''Cruizer''". The extra length gave greater speed, and combined with a considerable increase in power, this gave a speed of about , rather more than the of the previous class.Winfield (2004) p.216 The class were armed with a single 32 pounder 58 cwt, 32-pounder gun (58 cwt) gun on a pivot mount and ten 32-pounder (25 cwt) carronades on the broadside. These guns were all smoothbore muzzle-loading, and were little changed from the standard guns of Nelson's era.Bastock, p.29. Propulsion was provided by a two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine developing and driving a single screw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sloop-of-war
In the 18th century and most of the 19th, a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. The rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above; thus, the term ''sloop-of-war'' encompassed all the unrated combat vessels, including the very small gun-brigs and cutters. In technical terms, even the more specialised bomb vessels and fireships were classed as sloops-of-war, and in practice these were employed in the sloop role when not carrying out their specialised functions. In World War I and World War II, the Royal Navy reused the term "sloop" for specialised convoy-defence vessels, including the of World War I and the highly successful of World War II, with anti-aircraft and anti-submarine capability. They performed similar duties to the American destroyer escort class ships, and also performed similar duties to the smaller corvettes of the Royal Navy. Rigging A sloop-of-war was quite different from a civilian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
