HMS Dauntless (1847)

	HMS Dauntless, 33 Guns, lithograph, c. 1855
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Dauntless
Ordered	19 February 1844 as a paddle vessel; re-ordered 12 February 1845 as a screw vessel
Builder	Portsmouth Dockyard
Laid down	September 1845
Launched	5 January 1847
Commissioned	August 1850 after fitting engines at Glasgow
Decommissioned	1878
Fate	Sold for breaking 1 May 1885
General characteristics
Type	Steam Screw Frigate
Tons burthen	1,497 bm (as completed); 1,575 bm (as lengthened 1850);
Length	210 ft 0 in (64.01 m) (as completed); 219 ft 6 in (66.90 m) (as lengthened 1850);
Beam	39 ft 3 in (11.96 m)
Draught	10 ft 3 in (3.12 m)
Depth of hold	26 ft (7.9 m)
Propulsion	Sails and Steam; 2-cylinder 580 horsepower steam engine; Single (hoisting) Screw;
Sail plan	Ship Rigged
Armament	Guns:; 2 × 68 lb carronades; 4 × 10-inch shell guns; 18 × 32 lb guns;; re-armed 1854 with 33 guns;

The third HMS Dauntless was a wooden-hulled steam screw frigate, launched at Portsmouth in 1847.

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