HMS Briton was a Briton-class wooden screw corvette built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s.

History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Briton
NamesakeCeltic Britons
BuilderSheerness Dockyard
Laid down1868
Launched6 November 1869
CompletedNovember 1871
FateSold, 1887
General characteristics (as built)
Class and typeBriton-class wooden screw corvette
Displacement1,831 long tons (1,860 t)
Tons burthen1,322 bm
Length220 ft (67.1 m) (p/p)
Beam36 ft (11.0 m)
Draught16 ft 6 in (5.0 m)
Depth of hold21 ft 6 in (6.6 m)
Installed power2,149 ihp (1,603 kW)
Propulsion
Sail planShip rig
Speed13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement220
Armament

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Bibliography

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  • Ballard, G. A. (1938). "British Corvettes of 1875: The Larger Ram-Bowed Type". The Mariner's Mirror. 24 (January). Cambridge, UK: Society for Nautical Research: 81–94. doi:10.1080/00253359.1938.10657269.
  • Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
  • Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.
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