Name | Ship Builder | Launched | Fate |
Blazer | Portsmouth Dockyard | 7 December 1870 | Became seagoing tender for weapons testing in 1904. Gunboat August 1914. Sold to W Loveridge, West Hartlepool 19 August 1919. |
Comet | Portsmouth Dockyard | 8 December 1870 | Sold to J Pas on 12 May 1908 and broken up in the Netherlands |
Bustard | Robert Napier & Sons, Govan | 7 January 1871 | Sold to Thos. W. Ward, Milford Haven March 1923 |
Kite | Robert Napier & Sons, Govan | 8 February 1871 | Sold in a partially dismantled state to Hughes Bolckow on 18 May 1920 and converted to a dredger |
Scourge | Chatham Dockyard | 25 March 1871 | Converted to tank vessel, renamed C79 in 1903-4 and still listed as in service in 1930 |
Snake | Chatham Dockyard | 25 March 1871 | Completed as a cable lighter, renamed YC15 on 23 September 1907 |
Mastiff | Charles Mitchell and Co, Walker | 4 April 1871 | Renamed Snapper in 1914, sold to Thames Shipbreakers Ltd on 28 November 1931 |
Bloodhound | Charles Mitchell and Co, Walker | 22 April 1871 | Boom defence vessel in 1917, sold to F Bevis Ltd on 28 June 1921 |
Arrow | J & G Rennie, Greenwich | 22 April 1871 | Sold to W H Webber on 1 March 1922 |
Bonetta | J & G Rennie, Greenwich | 20 May 1871 | Sold on 12 January 1909 as salvage vessel Disperser and lost in April 1940 |
Badger | Chatham Dockyard | 13 March 1872 | Sold to W Loveridge, West Hartlepool on 6 October 1908 |
Fidget | Chatham Dockyard | 13 March 1872 | Hulked or sold in 1905 |
Bulldog | Campbell Johnston, North Woolwich | 17 September 1872 | Sold to R Gillham on 16 July 1906 |
Pike | Campbell Johnston, North Woolwich | 16 October 1872 | Boom defence vessel at Southampton in 1908, sold to G Sharpe on 27 March 1920 |
Pickle | Campbell Johnston, North Woolwich | 15 November 1872 | Dockyard lighter in 1906 |
Snap | Campbell Johnston, North Woolwich | 11 December 1872 | Sold at Chatham to Deaker, Hull in 1909 |
Ant | Laird Brothers, Birkenhead | 14 August 1873 | Boom defence vessel 1917, used as a target in 1921, sold to Granton Shipbreaking Company for breaking up on 2 June 1926 |
Cuckoo | Laird Brothers, Birkenhead | 14 August 1873 | Became base ship, renamed Vivid on 19 February 1912, Vivid II in January 1922, YC37 in 1923 and finally sold to Hocking, Plymouth in 1959 |
Hyaena | Laird Brothers, Birkenhead | 30 August 1873 | Sold at Chatham to Adrienne Merveille of Dunkirk on 3 April 1906 |
Weazel | Laird Brothers, Birkenhead | 4 September 1873 | Became oil fuel lighter C118 in 1904 |
Gadfly | Pembroke Dock | 5 May 1879 | Converted to a coal lighter at Simonstown, completing on 18 May 1900 and then renamed YC230. Sold at the Cape in 1918 |
Pincher | Pembroke Dock | 5 May 1879 | Sold at Portsmouth on 11 June 1905 |
Griper | Pembroke Dock | 15 September 1879 | Became steam lighter YC373 in 1905, renamed Flora on 19 June 1923 as base ship, then Afrikander in 1933. Believed to have been broken up at the Cape in 1951 |
Tickler | Pembroke Dock | 15 September 1879 | Converted to steam lighter at Simonstown in 1902, renamed Afrikander as base ship on 26 February 1919, then Afrikander II in 1933. Broken up at Simonstown in 1937 |