HMS Niger (1846)
HMS Niger was an 8-gun (later 14-gun) screw sloop launched on 18 November 1846 from Woolwich Dockyard. She had been intended as a sailing sloop but her design was lengthened to fit a steam engine, and she was fitted with screw propulsion at Deptford Dockyard in 1847-48 prior to completion. She was reclassified as a corvette in 1852. She conducted important propulsion trials, finally proving the superiority of screw propulsion and served in West Africa, the Crimea, China, the East Indies and Australia. She took part in the New Zealand wars in 1860 and was sold for breaking in 1869.
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HMS Niger (1846)
HMS Niger was an 8-gun (later 14-gun) screw sloop launched on 18 November 1846 from Woolwich Dockyard. She had been intended as a sailing sloop but her design was lengthened to fit a steam engine, and she was fitted with screw propulsion at Deptford Dockyard in 1847-48 prior to completion. She was reclassified as a corvette in 1852. She conducted important propulsion trials, finally proving the superiority of screw propulsion and served in West Africa, the Crimea, China, the East Indies and Australia. She took part in the New Zealand wars in 1860 and was sold for breaking in 1869.
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HMS Niger was an 8-gun (later ...... was sold for breaking in 1869.
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1845-02-20
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1.03632e+1
ship launched
1846-11-18
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Sold to Castle in 1869 for breaking
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Ship armament
*As built:
*2 × 56-pdr guns
* ...... × 32-pdr guns
*1 × 68-pdr gun
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Ship class
Niger-class screw sloop
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Ship country
United Kingdom
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Ship decommissioned
Ship displacement
*1,072 (6/94) bm
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Ship fate
Sold to Castle in 1869 for breaking
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Ship laid down
May 1845
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Ship launched
1846-11-18
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Ship name
HMS Niger
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Ship ordered
1845-02-20
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Ship propulsion
*4-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine
* Single screw
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Ship refit
Lengthened at Deptford Dockyard in 1848
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