Jackal-class gunvessel

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|Ship image=HMS Jackall (1844).jpg

|Ship caption=A Jackal-class gunvessel

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{{Infobox ship class overview

|Name=Jackal class

|Builders=Robert Napier and Sons, Govan

|Operators={{navy|United Kingdom}}

|Class before=Nil

|Class after={{sclass|Torch|gunvessel|4}}

|Cost=

|Built range=1844

|In service range=1845-1887

|In commission range=

|Total ships completed=2

|Total ships scrapped=2

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|Header caption=Winfield (2004), p.176

|Ship type=Iron second-class gunvessel

|Ship tons burthen=340 bm

|Ship length=*{{convert|142|ft|7+1/4|in|m|1|abbr=on}} (overall)

{{convert|126|ft|10+1/2|in|m|1|abbr=on}} (keel)

|Ship beam={{convert|22|ft|6|in|m|1|abbr=on}}

|Ship draught=

|Ship hold depth={{convert|12|ft|9+1/2|in|m|1|abbr=on}}

|Ship sail plan=2-masted schooner

|Ship power=*150 nhp

{{convert|455|ihp|kW|abbr=on|lk=in}}

|Ship propulsion=

2-cylinder side-lever steam engine
Paddle wheels

|Ship complement=60

|Ship armament=

1 × 18-pounder (22cwt)22 cwt is the weight of the gun ("cwt" = hundredweight) carronade on pivot
2 × 24-pounder (13cwt) carronades

|Ship notes=

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The Jackal-class gunvessel (alternatively spelled Jackall) was a class of two second-class iron paddle gunvessels built for the Royal Navy in the mid 1840s. They served in the Mediterranean and South Atlantic, and latterly on fishery protection duties off Scotland.

Design

Orders for both ships were placed on 16 January 1844. They were designed by the builder, Robert Napier and Sons and approved on 17 April 1844 by the Surveyor of the Navy, Sir William Symonds.

They were each fitted with a Napier two-cylinder side-lever steam engine driving side paddles. The engine was rated at 150 nominal horsepower and on trials developed {{convert|455|ihp|kW|lk=in}}. Two gaff-rigged masts were provided, making them schooners. The armament consisted of a single 18-pounder (22cwt) carronade on a pivot mounting and two 24-pounder (13cwt) carronades.

Construction

Both ships were built at Napier's Govan yard. Jackall was built as yard number 8, and Lizard as number 9.[https://web.archive.org/web/20131221035058/http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=8190 HMS Jackall, Shipping Times Clydebuilt database], accessed 10 December 2011 Jackall was launched on 28 November 1844, and Lizard followed exactly a month later.

Service

Jackall served in the Mediterranean and at Ascension, and by 1864 she was employed on fishery protection duties off the west coast of Scotland.{{cite web|url=http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=1634|title=HMS Jackall at William Loney website|accessdate=20 December 2013}}

Lizard also served in the Mediterranean, and took part in an Anglo-French action in Uruguay in 1845, receiving serious damage and losing 4 men.{{cite book|author1=William Laird Clowes|author2=W Laird Clowes, Sir|author3=Sir Clements Robert Markham|title=The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times to 1900|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zXFnAAAAMAAJ|date=1 May 1997|publisher=Chatham Pub.|isbn=978-1-86176-015-9|page=344}} By 1858 she was also engaged in fishery protection duties off Scotland.{{cite web|url=https://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=1703|title=HMS Lizard at William Loney website|accessdate=20 December 2013}}