HMS Sepoy (1856)

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NameHMS Sepoy
Ordered4 October 1855
BuilderT & W Smith, North Shields
Cost£10,725[1]
Sepoy's sister ship, Raven
History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Sepoy
Ordered4 October 1855
BuilderT & W Smith, North Shields
Cost£10,725[1]
Laid down8 October 1855
Launched13 February 1856
Commissioned5 April 1856[1]
FateBroken up 1868[1]
General characteristics
Class & typeAlbacore-class gunboat of 1855
Displacement284 tons
Tons burthen232 68/94 bm
Length
  • 106 ft (32 m) (gundeck)
  • 93 ft 2+1⁄2 in (28.410 m) (keel)
Beam22 ft 0 in (6.7 m)
Draught6 ft 6 in (2.0 m)
Depth of hold8 ft (2.4 m)[1]
Installed power
Propulsion
  • Horizontal single-expansion, direct-acting steam engine
  • Three cylindrical boilers
  • Single screw[1]
Speed7+1⁄2 kn (13.9 km/h)
Complement36 - 40
Armament
  • 1 × 68-pounder 95 cwt muzzle-loading smooth-bore gun aft
  • 1 × 32-pounder muzzle-loading smooth-bore gun fwd
  • 2 × 24-pounder howitzers on broadside trucks[1]

HMS Sepoy was a 4-gun Albacore-class gunboat of the Royal Navy launched in 1856 and broken up in 1868.

The Albacore class was ordered to meet the sudden need for shallow-draft vessels in the Black Sea and Baltic Sea during the Crimean War. Many of them were built of unseasoned timber, and their lives were consequently short. Sepoy was launched on 13 February 1856 at the North Shields yard of T & W Smith, and commissioned seven weeks later under Lieutenant-in-command Henry Needham Knox.[2]

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