HMS Miranda (1851)
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HMS Miranda (left) and HMS Fawn (right) during the Regatta of January, 1862 ("the race of the Maori war canoes")
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| Name: | HMS Miranda |
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| Builder: | Royal Dockyard, Sheerness |
| Cost: | £48,393 |
| Laid down: | September 1848 |
| Launched: | 18 March 1851 |
| Completed: | 9 March 1854 |
| Commissioned: | 25 February 1854 |
| Fate: | Sold for breaking 2 December 1869 |
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| Displacement: | 1,523 tons |
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| Beam: | 34 ft (10 m) |
| Draught: | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 20 ft 9 in (6.32 m) |
| Installed power: | Indicated 613 hp (457 kW) |
| Propulsion: | Two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion geared steam engine driving a single screw |
| Sail plan: | Ship-rigged |
| Speed: | 10.5 kn (19.4 km/h) under power |
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HMS Miranda was a 14-gun (15-gun from 1856) wooden screw sloop of the Royal Navy, launched in 1851 and sold for breaking in 1869. Two of her crew were awarded the Victoria Cross for their bravery during the Crimean War.
Ordered on 25 April 1847 as HMS Grinder, she was re-ordered on 3 November 1847 under the new name of Miranda to a design by the Admiralty under the direction of Lord John Hay. This Admiralty design was a modification of the Royal Navy's first screw sloop, Rattler. Originally classified as a sloop, she was reclassified as a corvette by 1862.
She was designed with a two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion geared steam engine developing an indicated 613 horsepower (457 kW) and driving a single screw. This was sufficient to achieve 10.75 knots (19.91 km/h) under engines alone. Her machinery was provided by Robert Napier and Sons at a cost of £14,235, and fitted in Glasgow during 1852.
The pictorial record shows Miranda with a full ship rig in 1862, which makes it likely that she carried this rig for her entire life.
Originally built with fourteen 32-pounder (42cwt) carriage guns in a broadside arrangement, a further 68-pdr (87cwt) pivot gun was added in 1856.
Miranda was laid down at Sheerness Royal Dockyard in September 1848 and launched on 18 March 1851. She commissioned at Sheerness on 25 February 1854.
During the Russian War Miranda served in the Baltic and White Sea in 1854 and in the Sea of Azov in 1855 . From 1860 until 1865 she served on the Australia Station, taking part in the New Zealand land wars.
In the autumn 1854, a squadron of three British warships led by Miranda left the Baltic for the White Sea, where they shelled and destroyed Kola. An attempt to storm Arkhangelsk proved abortive. While the Anglo-French naval squadron successfully shelled the town, a landing of 800 sailors and marines was repulsed.
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