HMS Rapid (1860)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Rapid.
HMS Rapid was an 11-gun Rosario-class wooden-hulled screw-driven sloop of the Royal Navy, launched on 29 November 1860 at Deptford Dockyard and broken up in 1881.
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Sister-ship, HMS Peterel | |
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Name | HMS Rapid |
Ordered | 27 March 1858[1] |
Builder | Deptford Dockyard |
Laid down | 18 August 1859[1] |
Launched | 29 November 1860 |
Commissioned | June 1862[1] |
Fate | Broken up at Malta in September 1881 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Rosario-class sloop |
Displacement | 913 tons |
Length | 160 ft 10 in (49.02 m) |
Beam | 30 ft 6 in (9.30 m) |
Draught | 15 ft 10 in (4.83 m) |
Installed power | 460 indicated horsepower |
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Speed | 9.1 kn (16.9 km/h) under power |
Complement | 140 |
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