Condor class gunvessel

"Well Done Condor". Bombardment of Alexandria, 1882 by Charles Dixon
Class overview
Name:	Condor-class gunvessels
Builders:	Devonport Dockyard Laird Brothers, Birkenhead
Operators:	Royal Navy
Built:	1876–1877
In commission:	1877–1923
Completed:	4
General characteristics
Displacement:	774 tons
Length:	157 ft (48 m)
Beam:	29 ft 6 in (8.99 m)
Draught:	12 ft (3.7 m)[1]
Installed power:	Designed 750 ihp (560 kW)
Propulsion:	Three Boilers 2-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine Single screw (Laird vessels had feathering blades)[1]
Sail plan:	Barque-rigged
Speed:	11.5 kn (21.3 km/h) under power
Complement:	100[1]
Armament:	One 7-in (4½-ton) muzzle-loading rifle Two 64-pdr (64cwt) muzzle-loading rifles Except Flamingo: One 7-in (4½-ton) muzzle-loading rifle One 64-pdr (64cwt) muzzle-loading rifles Two 20-pdr Breech-Loaders Flamingo and Griffon rearmed in 1884: 7-in MLR replaced with two 5-in Vavasseur breech loaders

The Condor-class gunvessel was a class of four Royal Navy composite gunvessels of 3 guns, built between 1876 and 1877.^[2] They were all hulked or sold before 1893, giving them an active life of less than 15 years.

Construction

Design

Designed by Nathaniel Barnaby^[1], the Royal Navy Director of Naval Construction, the hull was of composite construction; that is, iron keel, frames, stem and stern posts with wooden planking.

Propulsion

They were fitted with three boilers, a 2-cylinder horizontal compound expansion steam engine and a single screw. Griffon and Falcon were engined by Laird Brothers and had a feathering propeller. Flamingo and Condor were engined by John Elder & Co, and all ships had a designed 750 indicated horsepower (560 kW), developing about 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h) under power.^[1]

Sail plan

The class was rigged with three masts, with square rig on the fore- and main-masts, making them barque-rigged vessels.^[1]

Armament

The ships of the class were fitted with a 7-in (4½-ton) muzzle-loading rifle and two 64-pdr (64cwt) muzzle-loading rifles, except for Flamingo, which had two 20-pdr breech-loaders in place of one of the 64-pdr muzzle-loading rifles. In 1884 Flamingo and Griffon were rearmed with two 5-in Vavasseur breech loaders replacing the 7-in muzzle-loading rifle.^[1]

HMS Griffon

Ships

Name	Ship Builder	Launched	Fate
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