HMS Fawn (1856)

HMS Fawn was a Royal Navy 17-gun Cruizer-class sloop launched in 1856. She served on the Australia, North America and Pacific stations before being converted to a survey ship in 1876. She was sold and broken up in 1884.

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Fawn.

HMS Fawn Caught in a White Squall, Bass Straits, Australia by Richard Brydges Beechey, 1880
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Fawn
Ordered27 March 1852
BuilderDeptford Dockyard
Laid down4 May 1854
Launched30 September 1856
Commissioned26 November 1859
Decommissioned1884
Fate
  • Survey ship from 1876
  • Sold in 1884
General characteristics
Class and typeCruizer-class screw sloop
Displacement1,045 tons
Tons burthen747+51⁄94 bm
Length
  • 160 ft (49 m) (gundeck)
  • 140 ft 1.75 in (42.7165 m) (keel)
Beam31 ft 10 in (9.70 m)
Draught11 ft (3.4 m)
Depth of hold17 ft 6 in (5.33 m)
Installed power
Propulsion
  • Two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine
  • Single screw
Sail planBarque-rigged
Speed8.7 knots (16.1 km/h; 10.0 mph)
Armament
  • One 32 pdr (56 cwt) pivot gun
  • Sixteen 32 pdr (32 cwt) carriage guns
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