HMS Kestrel (1856)
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HMS Kestrel was a Clown-class gunboat of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1856, serving in China and Japan in the 1850s and 1860s. She saw action during the Second Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion.
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Name | HMS Kestrel |
Ordered | January 1856[1] |
Builder | William Cowley Miller, Toxteth Dock, Liverpool |
Cost | £10,273[1] |
Laid down | 14 January 1856[1] |
Launched | 26 May 1856[1] |
Fate | Sold to Glover & Co., Yokohama, 16 March 1866 |
General characteristics [2] | |
Class and type | Clown-class gunboat |
Tons burthen | 232 80⁄94 tons bm |
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Beam | 21 ft 10 in (6.65 m) |
Draught | 4 ft 0 in (1.22 m) |
Depth of hold | 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 7.5 kn (13.9 km/h) |
Complement | 30 |
Armament | 1 × 68-pounder, 1 × 32-pounder SBML guns |
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