SMS Thetis (1855)
SMS Thetis, the former HMS Thetis, circa 1867.
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| Name: | HMS Thetis |
| Namesake: | Thetis |
| Ordered: | 23 April 1842 & 16 February 1843 |
| Builder: | Devonport dockyard |
| Cost: | £51,926 |
| Laid down: | 2 December 1844 |
| Launched: | 21 August 1846 |
| Commissioned: | 30 December 1846 |
| Fate: | Transferred to the Prussian Navy on 12 January 1855 |
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| Name: | SMS Thetis |
| Acquired: | 12 January 1855 |
| Decommissioned: | 28 November 1871 |
| Struck: | 28 November 1871 |
| Fate: | Broken up in 1894–95 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type: | 36-gun fifth-rate frigate |
| Displacement: | 1,894 long tons (1,924 t) |
| Tons burthen: | 1533 14⁄94 bm |
| Length: | 164 ft 7.25 in (50.2 m) |
| Beam: | 46 ft 8.75 in (14.2 m) |
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| Depth of hold: | 13 ft 6.5 in (4.128 m) |
| Sail plan: | Ship rig |
| Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement: | 330 |
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HMS Thetis was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. After nearly a decade of service with the British, she was transferred to Prussia in exchange for two steam gunboats. She served with the Prussian Navy, the North German Federal Navy and the Imperial German Navy as a training ship until being stricken in 1871. Thetis was subsequently converted into a coal hulk and broken up in 1894–95.
Thetis was a three-masted, ship-rigged frigate that had a sail area of 2,370 square metres (25,500 sq ft). Her maximum speed was 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph). The ship was considered to be a very good sea boat and very manoeuvrable, although she did suffer from severe pitching.Thetis had a crew of 330 officers and enlisted men in British service, but her crew numbered 35 officers and 345 enlisted men in Prussian service.
Measured at the gundeck, Thetis had a length of 164 feet 7.25 inches (50.2 m), a beam of 46 feet 8.75 inches (14.2 m) and a depth of hold of 13 ft 6.5 in (4.1 m). She was 1533 17⁄94 tons burthen in size and displaced 1,894 long tons (1,924 t). Forward, the ship had a draught of 13 ft 10 in (4.2 m) and 15 ft 5 in (4.7 m) aft.
In British service, Thetis was armed with eighteen 32-pounder (56 cwt) smoothbore and four 68-pounder (65 cwt) smoothbore shell guns on the upper deck. The ship was also fitted with ten 32-pounder guns on her quarterdeck and four more on her forecastle. All of these guns were of the lighter 25 cwt model. The Prussians rearmed her with thirty-eight Swedish 68-pounder guns, although two of these were later removed.
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