HMS Sulphur (1826)

HMS Sulphur was a 10-gun Hecla-class bomb vessel of the British Royal Navy, famous as one of the ships in which Edward Belcher explored the Pacific coast of the Americas.

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

Sulphur original plan
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Sulphur
Ordered18 May 1819
BuilderChatham Dockyard, Kent
Laid downMay 1824
Launched26 January 1826
Completed21 February 1826
Reclassified
  • Converted to survey ship, December 1835.
  • Receiving ship at Woolwich from May 1843.
FateBroken up by 20 November 1857
General characteristics
Class and typeHecla-class bomb vessel
Tons burthen372 1⁄94 tons bm
Length
  • 105 ft (32.0 m) (overall)
  • 86 ft 1.25 in (26.2 m) (keel)
Beam28 ft 6 in (8.7 m)
Depth of hold13 ft 10 in (4.22 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planFull-rigged
Complement67
Armament
  • 10 × 24-pounder carronades
  • 2 × 6-pounder guns
  • 1 × 13-inch (330 mm) mortar
  • 1 × 10-inch (250 mm) mortar
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