HMS Scourge (1844)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Scourge
Ordered	18 March 1841
Builder	Royal Dockyard, Portsmouth
Cost	£55,002
Laid down	February 1844
Launched	9 November 1844
Completed	13 May 1846
Commissioned	26 November 1845
Fate	Broken in 1865
General characteristics
Type	Steam Vessels (SV2) First Class Sloop
Tons burthen	1123+62⁄94 bm
Length	190 ft 0 in (57.9 m) gundeck 166 ft 0.75 in (50.6 m) keel for tonnage
Beam	36 ft 0 in (11.0 m) maximum 35 ft 8 in (10.9 m) for tonnage
Draught	7 ft 9.75 in (2.4 m) forward 8 ft 4 in (2.5 m) aft
Depth of hold	21 ft 0 in (6.4 m)
Installed power	378 NHP
Propulsion	2-cylinder VSE direct acting steam engine Paddles
Armament	1 × 13-inch mortar 2 × 68-pdr (95 cwt) MLSB guns on broadside trucks armament change 1853 2 × 42-pdr (84 cwt) MLSB guns on pivot mounts 2 × 68-pdr (64 cwt) MLSB guns on broadside trucks 2 × 42-pdr (22 cwt) carronades

HMS Scourge was a Bulldog-class sloop designed by Sir William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy. Originally she was ordered as a Driver-class sloop, however, under Admiralty Order of 26 December 1843 she was directed to be built to a new specification.^[1] She was initially commissioned for service with the Channel Squadron before moving to the North America and West Indies Station. She then served in the Mediterranean then the west coast of Africa. Her final service was in the Mediterranean. She was broken in 1865.^[2]

Scourge was the sixth named vessel since it was used for a 14-gun brig-sloop, launched by Allin of Dover on 26 October 1779, purchased on the stocks and foundered off the Dutch coast on 7 November 1795.^[3]