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Arrow-class Gunvessel
The ''Arrow'' class comprised six second-class screw-driven vessels built as despatch vessels for the Royal Navy in 1854, mounting 6 guns. In 1856 they were redesignated as second-class gunvessels. Construction Design The Crimean War sparked a sudden need for shallow-draught, manoeuvrable vessels for inshore work in the Baltic Sea, Baltic and the Black Sea. The ''Arrow'' class of six wooden-hulled screw steamers were built during 1854 to a design by the Surveyor’s Department. Construction was undertaken at two commercial yards on the River Thames, Thames, R & H Green at Blackwall Yard and Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, C J Mare & Company, at Leamouth. Two further designs of Crimean War gunvessel were ordered during 1855, the Intrepid class gunvessel, ''Intrepid'' class and the Vigilant class gunvessel, ''Vigilant'' class, and in 1856 the six ''Arrow''-class despatch vessels were re-classed as second-class gunvessels. Propulsion A two-cylinder horizontal single ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oswald Walters Brierly
Sir Oswald Walters Brierly (19 May 1817 – 14 December 1894), was an English marine painter from an old Cheshire family and he was born at Chester. Life He was the son of Thomas Brierly, a doctor and amateur artist, who belonged to an old Cheshire family, was born at Chester on 19 May 1817. After a general grounding in art at the academy of Henry Sass in Bloomsbury, he went to Plymouth to study naval architecture and rigging. He exhibited drawings of two men-of-war at Plymouth, and , at the Royal Academy in 1839. He then spent some time in the study of navigation, and in 1841 started on a voyage to Australia with his friend Benjamin Boyd in the latter's yacht ''Wanderer''. Boyd established himself in New South Wales as a merchant banker, pastoralist, shipowner, whaler and member of parliament. Brierly lived in southern New South Wales in a new settlement named Boydtown where he managed Boyd's whaling operations until 1848. Boyd even went so far as to have a house ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
