User:Doug Weller/HMS Porcupine (1844)

	Bringing a dredge trawl back aboard HMS Porcupine, by Sir Charles Wyville Thomson
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Porcupine
Ordered	11 November 1843
Builder	Deptford Dockyard
Cost	Hull £7,997, fitting out £7,050
Launched	17 June 1844
Commissioned	19 August 1844
Fate	list error: <br /> list (help); Survey ship 1862; Sold 1883
General characteristics
Class and type	Steam vessel, re-classified in 1844 as first-class steam gunvessel
Displacement	490 tons
Tons burthen	381 68/94 bm
Length	list error: <br /> list (help); 141 ft (43 m) (keel); 124 ft 7.5 in (37.986 m) (gundeck)
Beam	24 ft 1.5 in (7.353 m)
Depth of hold	13 ft (4.0 m)
Installed power	list error: <br /> list (help); 132 nominal horsepower; 285 ihp (213 kW)
Propulsion	2-cylinder side lever steam engine; Tubular boilers; Single screw;
Crew	80
Armament	1 x 32-pdr (26cwt) on pivot; 2 x 32-pdr (17cwt) carronades;

HMS Porcupine was a Royal Navy 3-gun wooden paddle steamer.^[3]

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Winfield (2003) p.?
^ William Loney website
^ Allaby, Michael (2009). Oceans: A Scientific History of Oceans and Marine Life. Facts on File. p. 128. ISBN 978-0816060993.

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.
"HMS Porcupine at the Naval Database website". Retrieved 2010-11-29.
"HMS Porcupine at the William Loney website". Retrieved 2010-11-29.