HMS BRITON
by Kevin Patience

Builders Sheerness Dockyard, Sheerness, England 1868
Length 220 feet
Beam  36 feet
Displacement  1,831 tons
Machinery  One horizontal single expansion steam engine. 2,150 hp
Speed      13 knots
Armament 2 x 7 inch muzzle loading guns
8 x 64 pounder muzzle loading guns
Complement 220
Disposal  Sold for scrap 1887
   

 

Crew  Casualties

George Clark Private RMLI 1873
Henry Bodley Carpenter 7th July 1873

 

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