- Satellite class sloop
The "Satellite" class was a class of 12-gun composite sloops built for the
Royal Navy between 1883 and 1888, and reclassified ascorvette s in 1884.cite web|url=http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/satellite_class__sloops.htm|title="Satellite" class sloops at Battleships-Cruisers website|accessdate = 2008-09-11]Construction
Design
Propulsion
Propulsion was provided by a horizontal compound expansion of convert|1400|hp|0|abbr=on driving a single screw.
ail Plan
All the ships of the class were built with a
barque rig.Armament
The class was designed with two 6-inch/100-pounder (81cwt) Breach-Loaders and ten 5-inch/50-pounder (38cwt) Breech Loaders, plus a single light gun and four (or more) machine guns. "Heroine", "Hyacinth" and "Royalist" were built with fourteen 5-inch/50-pounder (38cwt) Breach-Loaders in place of the 5-inch/6-inch mixture, and "Satellite" was converted to the same fit.
hips
Operational Lives
These ships were designed to patrol the far-flung reaches of Britain's maritime empire, and so "Rapid" and "Royalist" both went to the
Australian Station , "Satellite" to thePacific Station , "Pylades" to theNorth America and West Indies Station and "Heroine", "Caroline" and "Hyacinth" all to theChina Station . [cite web|url=http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/Index.html|title=Naval Database website|accessdate=2008-09-10]References
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