HMS Briton (1869)

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

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Briton
Namesake	Celtic Britons
Builder	Sheerness Dockyard
Laid down	1868
Launched	6 November 1869
Completed	November 1871
Fate	Sold, 1887
General characteristics (as built)
Class & type	Briton-class wooden screw corvette
Displacement	1,831 long tons (1,860 t)
Tons burthen	1,322 bm
Length	220 ft (67.1 m) (p/p)
Beam	36 ft (11.0 m)
Draught	16 ft 6 in (5.0 m)
Depth of hold	21 ft 6 in (6.6 m)
Installed power	2,149  ihp (1,603 kW)
Propulsion	1 × shaft 1 × 2-cylinder compound expansion steam engine 6 × cylindrical boilers
Sail plan	Ship rig
Speed	13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement	220
Armament	2 × 7-inch rifled muzzle-loading guns 8 × 6.3-inch 64-pounder rifled muzzle-loading guns

HMS Briton was a Briton-class wooden screw corvette built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s.

Bibliography

• Ballard, G. A. (1938). "British Corvettes of 1875: The Larger Ram-Bowed Type". The Mariner's Mirror. 24 (January). Cambridge, UK: Society for Nautical Research: 81–94. doi:10.1080/00253359.1938.10657269.
• Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905 . Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN   0-8317-0302-4.
• Lyon, David & Winfield, Rif (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. Chatham Publishing. ISBN   978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC   52620555.

External links

• Briton at William Loney website
• Briton at the Naval Database website Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine