HMS Harrier (1854)

Cruizer, sister-ship to Harrier
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Harrier
Ordered	18 July 1851[1]
Builder	Pembroke Dockyard
Laid down	November 1851[1]
Launched	13 May 1854
Commissioned	3 November 1854[1]
Decommissioned	1866
Fate	Broken up at Portsmouth in 1866
General characteristics
Class and type	Cruizer-class screw sloop
Displacement	1,045 tons [1]
Tons burthen	747 51/94 bm[1]
Length	160 ft (49 m) (gundeck) 140 ft 1.75 in (42.7165 m) (keel)
Beam	31 ft 10 in (9.70 m)[1]
Depth of hold	17 ft 6 in (5.33 m)[1]
Installed power	100 nominal horsepower 360 ihp (270 kW)[1]
Propulsion	Two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine Single screw[1]
Sail plan	Barque-rigged
Speed	8.3 kn (15.4 km/h)
Armament	One 32-pdr (56cwt) pivot gun Sixteen 32-pdr (32cwt) carriage guns

HMS Harrier was a Royal Navy Cruizer-class screw sloop launched in 1854. She took part in the Crimean War, served on the Australia Station and took part in the New Zealand Wars. She was broken up in 1865