Forester-class gunboat
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HMS Foxhound
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Forester-class gunboats |
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| Operators: |
 Royal Navy
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| Preceded by: | Ariel class |
| Succeeded by: | Banterer class |
| Cost: | Hull £14,150, machinery £6,550 (Foxhound) |
| Built: | 1874–1877 |
| In commission: | c.1874–1931 |
| Completed: | 12 |
| Lost: | 0 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Composite gunboat |
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| Length: | 125 ft 0 in (38.1 m) pp |
| Beam: | 23 ft 6 in (7.2 m) |
| Draught: | 8 1⁄2–10 1⁄2 ft (2.6–3.2 m) |
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| Sail plan: | Three-masted barquentine rig |
| Speed: | 10 kn (19 km/h) |
| Complement: | 60 |
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The Forester-class gunboat was a class of 4-gun composite gunboats built for the Royal Navy between 1874 and 1877. Although half had been sold by 1890, the rest survived into the 20th century as coal hulks, base vessels and other secondary uses. Foxhound survived as a hulk on the Blackwall Reach of the Thames until 1975, when she was broken up. They were built of composite construction, that is, with iron keel, stem and stern posts, and iron framing, but planked with wood.
Designed by Nathaniel Barnaby, Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy, the Forester-class gunboats were similar in every respect to the preceding Ariel-class gunboats. They were fitted with a 2-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine, although Moorhen and Sheldrake received a single-expansion direct-acting steam engine. These engines were rated for 60 nominal horsepower and generated between 387 ihp (289 kW) and 515 ihp (384 kW)). They were armed with two 6-inch (150 mm) 64-pounder (56cwt) muzzle-loading rifles and two 4-inch (100 mm) 20-pounder Armstrong breech loaders. All 4 guns were mounted on traversing carriages. All the ships of the class carried a three-masted barquentine rig.
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