Intrepid-class gunvessel

	Victor in her later guise as CSS Rappahannock in c.1864
Class overview
Name	Intrepid-class gunvessel
Builders	Pembroke Dockyard; Money Wigram & Sons, Blackwall; J. Scott Russell, Millwall;
Operators	Royal Navy; Confederate States Navy;
Preceded by	Vigilant class
Succeeded by	Philomel class
Built	1855-1856
In commission	1855-1865
Planned	8
Completed	6
Scrapped	5
General characteristics
Type	Wooden gunvessel
Displacement	1,042 tons
Tons burthen	868 49/94 bm
Length	200 ft (61 m) pp
Beam	30 ft 4 in (9.25 m)
Draught	12 ft 6 in (3.81 m) (deep)
Depth of hold	14 ft 6 in (4.42 m)
Installed power	350 nominal horsepower
Propulsion	2-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine; Single screw;
Sail plan	Barque
Speed	About 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h)
Complement	100
Armament	As built:; 1 × 68-pounder muzzle-loading rifle; 4 × 32-pounder (25cwt) muzzle-loading smoothbore guns; Later:; 1 × 7-inch/110-pounder breech loader; 1 × 40-pounder breech loader; 4 × 20 pounder breech loaders;

Intrepid-class gunvessels were a class of six Royal Navy first-class wooden gunvessels built in 1855-56. They were rated as sloops from 1859 to 1862, and were scrapped by 1865. Victor was sold to the Confederate States of America as the raider CSS Rappahannock, but she was interned by the French at Calais and never fulfilled her intended function.

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