Gleaner-class gunboat

Class overview
Name:	Gleaner class
Operators:	Royal Navy
Succeeded by:	Dapper class
Built:	1854
In commission:	1854 – 1864
Completed:	6
General characteristics [1]
Type:	'Crimean' gunboat
Tons burthen:	215 53⁄94 tons bm
Length:	100 ft (30 m) (gundeck); 86 ft 4 in (26.31 m) (keel);
Beam:	22 ft 0 in (6.71 m)
Draught:	7 ft 10 in (2.39 m)
Installed power:	60 nominal horsepower; 270 ihp (200 kW));
Propulsion:	2-cylinder horizontal single expansion steam engine; Single screw;
Speed:	7.5 kn (13.9 km/h)
Crew:	36
Armament:	1 × 68-pounder smoothbore muzzle-loading gun; 1 × 32-pounder SBML gun; 2 × 24-pounder howitzers;

The Gleaner (or Pelter)-class gunboat was a class of six gunboats built for the Royal Navy in 1854 for use in the Crimean War.[1]

Design

The Gleaner class was designed by W.H. Walker (who also designed the subsequent Dapper and Albacore classes). The ships were wooden-hulled, with steam power as well as sails, but of shallow draught for coastal bombardment in the shallow waters of the Baltic and Black Sea during the Crimean War.[1]

Propulsion

Two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engines built by John Penn and Sons, with two boilers, provided 60 nominal horsepower through a single screw, sufficient for 7.5 knots (13.9 km/h; 8.6 mph).[1]

Armament

Ships of the class were armed with one 68-pounder smooth bore muzzle loading cannon (SBML), one 32-pounder SBML (originally two 68-pounder SBMLs were planned but the forward gun was substituted by a 32-pounder) and two 24-pounder howitzers.[1]

Ships

Name	Ship builder[1]	Launched[1]	Fate[1]
Pelter	W & H Pitcher, Northfleet	28 August 1854	Sold for breaking January 1864, breaking up completed by Tolpult on 1 February 1864
Pincher	W & H Pitcher, Northfleet	5 September 1854	Breaking completed on 17 February 1864
Badger	W & H Pitcher, Northfleet	23 September 1854	Broken up at Portsmouth in June 1864
Snapper	W & H Pitcher, Northfleet	4 October 1854	Became a coal hulk in 1865, sold in 1906
Gleaner	Deptford Dockyard	7 October 1854	Sold at Montevideo in April 1868
Ruby	Deptford Dockyard	7 October 1854	Broken up October 1868

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References

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
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.

Winfield, p.223

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[RW-1] Winfield, p.223