HMS Peterel (1860)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Peterel.

Rosario-class sloop Peterel
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Peterel
Ordered1 April 1857
BuilderDevonport Dockyard
Laid down5 December 1859
Launched10 November 1860
CompletedMarch 1862
Reclassified
  • Lightship in December 1877
  • Coal hulk in December 1885
FateSold in October 1901
General characteristics
Class & typeRosario-class sloop
Displacement913 tons
Tons burthen668 76⁄94 bm
Length
  • 160 ft (49 m) (gundeck)
  • 139 ft 8.5 in (42.583 m) (keel)
Beam30 ft 4 in (9.25 m)
Draught15 ft 10 in (4.83 m)
Depth of hold18 ft 11 in (5.77 m)
Propulsion
  • Sails
  • 2-cylinder horizontal single expansion engine
  • Single screw
  • 150 nhp
  • 478 ihp
Sail plan
Speed8.982 knots (16.635 km/h; 10.336 mph) (under engines)
Complement130–150
Armament
  • As built
  • 1 × 40-pdr Armstrong BL
  • 6 × 32-pdr MLSB
  • 4 × 20-pdr Armstrong BL
  • After 1869
  • 1 × 7 in ML
  • 2 × 40-pdrs

HMS Peterel was a Rosario-class sloop of the Royal Navy.

Peterel served three commissions as a warship, on the North America and West Indies Station, the Cape of Good Hope Station and the Pacific Station. In 1877 she became a lightship marking the wreck of HMS Vanguard, then in 1885 she was converted into a coal depot before finally being sold in 1901, the longest lived of her class.

Figurehead

The ships figurehead was a simple three-quarter-length female bust carved by the resident carver of Devonport Dockyard, Frederick Dickerson of the Dickerson family.[1]

When the ship was sold, the figurehead was preserved at Devonport Dockyard and subsequently moved to the training establishment of HMS Royal Arthur.[2]

The figurehead eventually transferred to the Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Trust who still own the artefact. It is currently at the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth[3] as part of 'The Dockyard Apprentice' exhibition. [4]

Citations

  1. ^ Pulvertaft, David (2009). The Warship Figureheads of Portsmouth (1st Colour ed.). UK: The History Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-0752450766.
  2. ^ Pulvertaft, David (2009). The Warship Figureheads of Portsmouth (1st Colour ed.). UK: The History Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-0752450766.
  3. ^ "Discover the Royal Navy like never before | National Museum of the Royal Navy". www.nmrn.org.uk. Retrieved 11 July 2025.
  4. ^ "Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Trust (Support Group) - Layout Guide to Apprentice Exhibition" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 January 2015.

References

  • 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. OCLC 52620555.
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