Camelion-class sloop

Class overview
Built	1860–1866
Planned	16
Completed	8
Cancelled	8
General characteristics
Displacement	1,365 tons
Length	185 ft (56 m)
Beam	33 ft (10 m)
Draught	14 ft 8 in (4.47 m)
Propulsion	Screw; 200 hp engine
Speed	9 knots (17 km/h)
Complement	180
Armament	5 × 40-pounder guns 12 × 32-pounder guns

The Camelion class was a Royal Navy class of screw-driven sloops of wood construction. Eight ships of the class were built from 1860 – 1866 with another eight cancelled. Displacement was 1,365 tons with 200 hp. They were capable of approximately 9 knots and were armed with 17 guns.

Ships

The Camelion class

• HMS Camelion, sold 1883.
• HMS Pelican, sold 1867.
• HMS Rinaldo, sold 1884.
• HMS Zebra, sold 1873.
• HMS Perseus, became training ship in 1886, renamed HMS Defiance II in 1904, sold 1931.
• HMS Chanticleer, sold 1875.
• HMS Reindeer, built by the Royal Dockyard, Chatham, laid down May 1860|work was suspended in 1865 but subsequently restarted), launched 1866-03-29, and commissioned October 1866. Sold for breaking up 1873-08-28.
• HMS Rattler, wrecked 1868.

Cancelled ships

• HMS Circassian, laid down 1862 as Camelion class, completed as ironclad sloop HMS Enterprise.

References

• Royal Navy Sloops

• The Sail and Steam Navy List (David Lyon and Rif Winfield), Chatham Publishing, 2004. ISBN 1-86176-032-9.