HMS Rapid (1860)

As built: Ship-rigged
From c.1869: Barge-rigged

	Sister-ship, HMS Peterel
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Rapid
Ordered	27 March 1858
Builder	Deptford Dockyard
Laid down	18 August 1859
Launched	29 November 1860
Commissioned	June 1862
Fate	Broken up at Malta in September 1881
General characteristics
Class and type	Rosario-class sloop
Displacement	913 tons
Length	160 ft 10 in (49.02 m)
Beam	30 ft 6 in (9.30 m)
Draught	15 ft 10 in (4.83 m)
Installed power	460 indicated horsepower
Propulsion	2-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine; Single screw;
Sail plan	As built: Ship-rigged; From c.1869: Barge-rigged;
Speed	9.1 kn (16.9 km/h) under power
Complement	140
Armament	As built: 11 guns:; One 40-pdr Armstrong breech loaders; Six 32-pdr muzzle-loading smooth-bore guns; Four 20-pdr Armstrong breech loaders; By 1869: 3 guns; One 7-inch 7.5-ton muzzle-loading gun; Two 40-pdr Armstrong breech loaders;

HMS Rapid was an 11-gun Rosario-class wooden-hulled screw-driven sloop of the Royal Navy, launched on 29 November 1860 at Deptford Dockyard and broken up in 1881.

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