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Euryalus leading the line of battle during the Bombardment of Kagoshima, 1863
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Euryalus |
Namesake | Euryalus |
Builder | Chatham Dockyard |
Launched | 5 October 1853[1] |
Decommissioned | 23 September 1865 |
Fate | Broken up, 1867 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Screw frigate |
Displacement | 3,125 tons[1] |
Tons burthen | 2,371 tons bm[1] |
Length | 212 ft (65 m) o/a[2] |
Beam | 50 ft 2 in (15.29 m)[2] |
Depth | 16 ft 9 in (5.11 m)[2] |
Propulsion | Steam engine, 400 hp (300 kW), single screw[1] |
Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 515 |
Armament |
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HMS Euryalus was a fourth-rate wooden-hulled screw frigate of the Royal Navy, with a 400-horsepower (300 kW) steam engine that could make over 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph). She was launched at Chatham in 1853, was 212 feet long, displaced 3,125 tons and had a complement of 515 (this varied slightly as the Naval Standards varied). At the time of the Bombardment of Kagoshima she carried 35 guns, not counting approximately 16 carronades. Seventeen of her guns were breech-loading Armstrong guns. She carried 230 tons of coal, and provisions for about three months, together with over 70 tons of shot and shell.[3]