HMS ''Trident'' was an iron paddle
sloop
A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...
built for the
Royal Navy by
Ditchburn & Mare in 1845 at
Leamouth,
London.
''Illustrated London News'' 27 December 1845
/ref> She served in the Mediterranean, off West Africa and in the South Atlantic, and was broken up in 1866.
Design and construction
''Trident''s design was commissioned on 2 August 1842 for a steam yacht to replace HMS ''Black Eagle'' (previously ''Firebrand''). She was a third class iron paddle sloop, the only ship ever built to her design. The builder's design was approved on 22 August 1843 and she was launched on 16 December 1845. Her hull cost £17,000, and her machinery another £17,502. Fitting out was estimated to have cost a further £6,864.[
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Propulsion
She was originally intended to be fitted with a Maudslay side lever engine of 200 nominal horsepower, but received a Boulton, Watt & Co. two-cylinder oscillating steam engine with diameter cylinders and stroke. The engine was rated at 350 nominal horsepower and propelled her at a maximum speed of through a pair of paddle wheels.[
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Armament
''Trident'' received a pair of 10-inch (85 cwt) guns and two (later four) 32-pounder gunnade
A carronade is a short, smoothbore, cast-iron cannon which was used by the Royal Navy. It was first produced by the Carron Company, an ironworks in Falkirk, Scotland, and was used from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century. Its main funct ...
s.["cwt", or " hundredweight" refers to the weight of the gun itself. "32-pounder" refers to the weight of the ball fired.][
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Service
HMS ''Trident'' commissioned for the first time on 8 August 1846 for the Mediterranean.[ On 26 September 1849, she collided with in the Atlantic Ocean south east of the Old Head of Kinsale, County Cork. HMS ''Dwarf'' was severely damaged. Her crew were taken off by HMS ''Trident'', which towed her in to Kinsale, County Cork.]South America Station
The South America Station was a formation of the Royal Navy which existed from 1808 to 1838 when it was split into the Pacific Station and the South East Coast of America Station.
Following the invasion of Portugal by Napoleon, the Portuguese cou ...
and in the West Africa Squadron. On 11 December 1861 her commanding officer, Commander Beville Nicolas, was dismissed the service for cruelty after excessively punishing two boys for leave breaking at Gibraltar. She paid off at Woolwich on 20 December 1864.
Fate
''Trident'' was broken up by Castle at Charlton in January 1866.
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Paddle sloops of the Royal Navy
Ships built in Leamouth
Steam yachts
1845 ships
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