HMS Cormorant (1842)

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

Sister-ship, HMS Driver
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Cormorant
Ordered	18 March 1841
Builder	Sheerness Dockyard
Cost	£44,898
Laid down	17 May 1841
Launched	13 January 1842
Commissioned	8 February 1843
Fate	Broken up on 17 August 1853
General characteristics [1]
Class & type	Driver-class wooden paddle sloop
Displacement	1,590 tons
Tons burthen	1,055 62⁄94 bm
Length	180 ft (54.9 m)
Beam	36 ft (11.0 m)
Depth of hold	21 ft (6.4 m)
Installed power	280 nhp
Propulsion	William Fairbairn 2-cylinder direct-acting steam engine Paddles
Sail plan	Brig-rigged
Complement	149 (later 160)
Armament	2 × 10-inch/42-pounder (84 cwt) pivot guns 2 × 68-pounder guns (64 cwt) 2 × 42-pounder (22 cwt) guns

HMS Cormorant was a Driver-class wooden paddle sloop of the Royal Navy that operated from 1843 to 1853.

Citations

1. Lyon & Winfield (2004), p. 160.

References

• Lyon, David; Winfield, Rif (2004). "The sail & steam Navy list, all the ships of the Royal Navy, 1815-1889". Biblio.com (1 ed.). Retrieved 7 February 2022.