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HMS Surprise (1856)

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Design
Propulsion Sail plan Armament
Construction
History
Disposal
Commanding officers
References
Sources

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Ship name=HMS Surprise

Ship ordered=26 July 1855

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Ship builder=Money Wigram and Son of Blackwall Yard

Ship original cost=£33,356^[1]

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Ship laid down=30 August 1855

Ship launched=6 March 1856

Ship commissioned=12 April 1856

Ship fate=Broken up in 1866
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Ship class= Vigilant-class second-class despatch/gunvessel

Ship tons burthen=669 79/94 bm

Ship displacement=860 tons

180|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} (gundeck)

{{convert|160|ft|7.5|in|m|1|abbr=on}} (keel)

28|ft|4|in|m|1|abbr=on}}

8|ft|m|abbr=on|1}} (designed)^[1]

14|ft|m|2|abbr=on}}

Ship power=*200 nominal horsepower

{{convert|778|ihp|kW|abbr=on}}

Ship propulsion=* 2-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine

Single screw

Ship sail plan=Barque-rigged

11|kn|km/h|abbr=on}} under steam

Ship complement=80

Ship armament=*As designed:

2 × 68-Pounder Lancaster guns on pivots
2 × 12-pdr howitzers
As completed:
1 × 7-inch/110-pdr breech loader
1 x68-pdr muzzle-loading rifle
2 × 20-pdr breech loaders

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HMS Surprise was a Vigilant-class gunvessel of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Blackwall Yard, London in 1856 and broken up in Plymouth in 1866.

Design

Her class were designed as second-class despatch and gunvessels. They were intended to operate close inshore during the Crimean War and were essentially enlarged versions of the Arrow-class gunvessel, which has been designed by the Surveyor’s Department in 1854.^[1]

Propulsion

A two-cylinder horizontal single expansion steam engine by Miller, Ravenhill and Salkeld provided {{convert|778|ihp|kW}} through a single screw,^[1] and gave a top speed of about 11 knots.^[1]

Sail plan

All Vigilant-class gunvessels were barque-rigged.^[1]

Armament

Although designed with a pair of 68-pounder Lancaster muzzle-loading rifles, the Vigilant class were finished with one {{convert|7|in|mm|adj=on}}/{{convert|110|lb|kg|adj=on}} Armstrong breech-loading gun, one {{convert|68|lb|kg|adj=on}} Lancaster muzzle-loading rifled gun and two 20-pounder breech loaders.^[1]

Construction

Surprise was ordered on 26 July 1855 at the same time as nine others of her class. Her keel was laid at the Blackwall yard of Money Wigram & Son on 30 August and she was launched on 6 March 1856.^[1]

History

From 18 March 1856 she was commanded by Commander Charles Egerton Harcourt-Vernon,^[2] and he commissioned her at Blackwall on 12 April the same year.^[1] From 1857 under Commander Cresswell the ship served in the East Indies including the Second Anglo-Chinese War,^[2] and from 1861 she formed part of the Mediterranean Fleet.^[2] Between August 1864 and 24 April 1866 she was commanded by George Tryon, later to become infamous as the Admiral who caused the loss in 1893 of his flagship HMS Victoria during fleet manoeuvres.

Disposal

Surprise was sold to Marshall of Plymouth and broken up in November 1866.^[3]

Commanding officers

From	Captain
18 March 1856	Commander Charles Egerton Harcourt-Vernon^[2]
11 March 1857	Commander Samuel Gurney Cresswell^[2]
2 August 1861	Commander William Henry Whyte^[2]
August 1864	Commander George Tryon^[2]

References

1. ^¹Preston (2007) p.150
2. ^¹²³⁴⁵⁶{{cite web|url=http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=2140|title=HMS Surprise at William Loney website|accessdate=2009-07-06}}
3. ^¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷Winfield (2004) p.220

Sources

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