Plover-class gunvessel
{{Short description|Wooden gunboat}}
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{{Use British English|date=March 2017}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=HMS Woodlark (1871) IWM Q 40622.jpg |Ship caption=Woodlark in 1880 }} {{Infobox ship class overview |Name=Plover class |Builders= |Operators={{navy|United Kingdom}} |Class before={{sclass|Cormorant|gunvessel|4}} |Class after={{sclass|Beacon|gunvessel|4}} |Cost= |Built range=1867–1871 |In service range= |In commission range= |Total ships completed=12 |Total ships scrapped=12 }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption=(as built) |Ship type=Wooden screw gunvessel |Ship tons burthen=663 bm |Ship displacement={{convert|805|LT|t}} |Ship length={{convert|170|ft|m|abbr=on|1}} (p/p) |Ship beam={{convert|29|ft|m|abbr=on|1}} |Ship draught={{convert|10|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on|1}} |Ship depth={{convert|15|ft|m|abbr=on|1}} |Ship power={{convert|857 |
| 985|ihp|lk=in|abbr=on}}
|Ship propulsion=*2 shafts
|Ship speed={{convert|10 |
| 11|kn|lk=in}}
|Ship range= |Ship complement=90 |Ship sail plan=Barque rig |Ship armament=*1 × 7-inch rifled muzzle-loading gun |Ship notes= }} |
The Plover-class gunvessels were a class of wooden gunboats built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s. They mostly served overseas and were retired early as they were regarded as hopelessly obsolete by the late 1880s.
Ships
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!BuilderChesneau & Kolesnik, p. 109 !Laid downLyon & Winfield, p. 293 |
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| {{HMS|Plover|1867|2}}
|align=center|NA |align=center|20 February 1867 |align=center|NA |Sold for breaking, August 1885 |
| {{HMS|Ringdove|1867|2}}
|align=center|NA |align=center|4 September 1867 |align=center|NA |Sold for breaking, 17 May 1882 |
| {{HMS|Philomel|1867|2}}
|Deptford Dockyard |align=center|NA |align=center|29 October 1867 |align=center|NA |Sold at Bombay, 14 April 1886 |
| {{HMS|Lapwing|1867|2}}
|align=center|21 January 1867 |align=center|8 November 1867 |align=center|27 June 1868 |Sold for breaking, 15 April 1885 |
| {{HMS|Magpie|1868|2}}
|Portsmouth Dockyard |align=center|NA |align=center|12 February 1868 |align=center|NA |Survey vessel in 1878. Sold, September 1885 |
| {{HMS|Bullfinch|1868|2}}
|align=center|NA |align=center|13 February 1868 |align=center|NA |Sold for breaking, June 1885 |
| {{HMS|Seagull|1868|2}}
|Devonport Dockyard |align=center|15 April 1867 |align=center|6 March 1868 |align=center|19 April 1871 |Sold for breaking, November 1887 |
| {{HMS|Curlew|1868|2}}
|Deptford Dockyard |align=center|NA |align=center|20 August 1868 |align=center|NA |Sold for breaking, 7 November 1882 |
| {{HMS|Swallow|1868|2}}
|Portsmouth Dockyard |align=center|NA |align=center|16 November 1868 |align=center|NA |Sold, 18 October 1882 |
| {{HMS|Bittern|1869|2}}
|align=center|NA |align=center|20 September 1869 |align=center|NA |Sold for breaking, November 1887 |
| {{HMS|Vulture|1869|2}}
|Sheerness Dockyard |align=center|NA |align=center|6 November 1869 |align=center|NA |Sold for breaking, September 1885 |
| {{HMS|Woodlark|1871|2}}
|align=center|NA |align=center|9 March 1871 |align=center|NA |Sold at Bombay, 9 March 1887 |
Footnotes
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Bibliography
- {{Cite Colledge2006}}
- {{cite journal|last=Ballard|first=G. A.|date=1940|title=British Gunvessels of 1875: The Larger Twin-Screw Type|journal=Mariner's Mirror|publisher=Society for Nautical Research|location=Cambridge, UK|volume=26|pages=15–32|issue=January|doi=10.1080/00253359.1940.10657367 }}
- {{cite book|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905|editor1-last=Chesneau|editor1-first=Roger|editor2-last=Kolesnik|editor2-first=Eugene M.|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=Greenwich, UK|date=1979|isbn=0-8317-0302-4|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/conwaysallworlds0000unse_l2e2}}
- {{winfield}}
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