Arrow-class gunvessel: Difference between revisions

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{{Infobox Ship Class Overview

|Builders=[[Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company|C J Mare & Company]], [[Leamouth]]<br> R & H Green, [[Blackwall Yard]]

|Operators={{navy|UK}}<br>{{flagicon|Japan}}Japanese Army

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|Ship displacement=586&nbsp;tons

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*Single 2-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine

*Single screw<ref name=RW/>

|Ship sail plan=[[Barque]]-rigged

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==Construction==

===Design===

The [[Crimean War]] sparked a sudden need for shallow-draught, manoeuvrable vessels for inshore work in the [[Baltic Sea|Baltic]] and the [[Black Sea]]. The ''Arrow'' class of six wooden-hulled screw steamers were built during 1854 to a design by the Surveyor’s Department. Construction was undertaken at two commercial yards on the [[River Thames|Thames]], R & H Green at [[Blackwall Yard]] and [[Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company|C J Mare & Company]], at [[Leamouth]].<!--<ref name=RW/>--> Two further designs of Crimean War gunvessel were ordered during 1855, the [[Intrepid class gunvessel|''Intrepid'' class]] and the [[Vigilant class gunvessel|''Vigilant'' class]], and in 1856 the six ''Arrow''-class despatch vessels were re-classed as second-class gunvessels.

===Propulsion===

A two-cylinder horizontal single expansion steam engine provided {{convert|160|hp|0}} through a single [[Propeller#Marine|screw]].<ref name=RW/>

All ''Arrow''-class gunvessels were [[barque]]-rigged.<ref name=RW/>

===Armament===

The ''Arrow'' class were provided with two [[68-Pounder Lancaster gun|68-pounder Lancaster muzzle-loading rifles]] weighing {{convert|95|long cwt|kg|abbr=on}} on pivot mounts, and four 32-pounder {{convert|25|long cwt|kg|abbr=on}} guns.

==Ships==

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''Wrangler'' was sent to the [[Baltic Sea|Baltic]] on completion, and the others of the class to the [[Black Sea]] where they took part in the [[Crimean War]]. The Lancaster guns were not entirely successful and the class had their armament reduced, being employed in their original designation as despatch vessels.

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