Plover-class gunvessel

Woodlark in 1880
Class overview
Name:	Plover class
Operators:	Royal Navy
Preceded by:	Cormorant class
Succeeded by:	Beacon class
Built:	1867–1871
Completed:	12
Scrapped:	12
General characteristics (as built)
Type:	Wooden screw gunvessel
Displacement:	805 long tons (818 t)
Tons burthen:	663 bm
Length:	170 ft (51.8 m) (p/p)
Beam:	29 ft (8.8 m)
Draught:	10 ft 6 in (3.2 m)
Depth:	15 ft (4.6 m)
Installed power:	857–985 ihp (639–735 kW)
Propulsion:	2 shafts 2 × 2-cylinder horizontal steam engines 4 × boilers
Sail plan:	Barque rig
Speed:	10–11 knots (19–20 km/h; 12–13 mph)
Complement:	90
Armament:	1 × 7-inch rifled muzzle-loading gun 2 × 40-pounder rifled breechloading guns

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.

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