HMS Eclipse (1860)

HMS Cormorant, name ship of the class
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Eclipse
Ordered	14 June 1859
Builder	J. Scott Russell & Co., Millwall Engines by Robert Napier and Sons
Laid down	8 August 1859
Launched	18 September 1860
Decommissioned	1867
Fate	Broken up at Sheerness in July 1867
General characteristics [1][2]
Class and type	Cormorant-class first-class gunvessel
Displacement	877 tons
Tons burthen	694 66/94 bm
Length	185 ft 0 in (56.4 m) (overall) 165 ft 7+1⁄4 in (50.5 m) (keel)
Beam	28 ft 4 in (8.6 m)
Draught	11–12 ft (3.4–3.7 m)
Depth of hold	14 ft 0 in (4.3 m)
Installed power	200 nhp 838 ihp (625 kW)
Propulsion	2-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine Single screw
Sail plan	Barque[3]
Speed	11 knots (20 km/h) (under steam)
Complement	90
Armament	1 × 7-inch/110-pdr Armstrong breech-loading gun 1 × 68-pdr muzzle-loading smoothbore gun 2 × 20-pdr Armstrong breech-loading gun

HMS Eclipse was a four-gun Cormorant-class first-class gunvessel launched in 1860 from the shipyard of J. Scott Russell & Co., Millwall. She served on the Australia Station, took part in the Second Taranaki War, including contributing men to a naval brigade which attacked the Maori stronghold at Gate Pā. The entire class were never satisfactory as gunvessels, partly due to their excessive draught, and Eclipse was broken up at Sheerness in 1867, only seven years after her launch.