Condor-class gunvessel

	"Well Done Condor". Bombardment of Alexandria, 1882 by Charles Dixon
Class overview
Name	Condor-class gunvessels
Builders	Devonport Dockyard; Laird Brothers, Birkenhead;
Operators	Royal Navy
Built	1876–1877
In commission	1877–1923
Completed	4
General characteristics
Displacement	774 tons
Length	157 ft (48 m)
Beam	29 ft 6 in (8.99 m)
Draught	12 ft (3.7 m)
Installed power	Designed 750 ihp (560 kW)
Propulsion	Three Boilers; 2-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine; Single screw (Laird vessels had feathering blades);
Sail plan	Barque-rigged
Speed	11.5 kn (21.3 km/h) under power
Complement	100
Armament	One 7-in (4½-ton) muzzle-loading rifle; Two 64-pounder (64cwt) muzzle-loading rifles; Except Flamingo:; One 7-in (4½-ton) muzzle-loading rifle; One 64-pounder (64cwt) muzzle-loading rifles; Two 20-pounder Breech-Loaders; Flamingo and Griffon rearmed in 1884:; 7-in MLR replaced with two 5-in Vavasseur breech loaders;

The Condor-class gunvessel was a class of four Royal Navy composite gunvessels of 3 guns, built between 1876 and 1877. They were all hulked or sold before 1893, giving them an active life of less than 15 years.

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