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} |} The ''Conflict''-class sloop was a class of two first-class wooden screw sloops built for the Royal Navy in the mid 1840s. Two other ships were ordered but cancelled shortly afterwards. Both completed ships served in the Baltic during the Crimean war, and ''Desperate'' briefly served as a store ship to Edward Augustus Inglefield's Arctic expedition. They had both been broken up by 1865. ==Design== Orders for two first-class steam vessels (''Conflict'' and ''Desperate'') were placed with Pembroke Dockyard on 5 February 1845. A further pair (''Enchantress'' and ''Falcon'') were ordered on 26 March 1846, but were suspended in September the same year. The vessels were re-rated as first-class sloops in April 1845. They were designed by the Surveyor's department and approved by the Surveyor of the Navy, Sir William Symonds on 9 May 1845. The suspended ships were finally cancelled in April 1851.〔 The completed ships were fitted with a 4-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine driving a single screw. The engines were provided by Seaward and Capel (''Conflict'') and Maudslay, Sons & Field (''Desperate''). The engine was rated at 400 nominal horsepower and on trials in ''Conflict'' developed . The armament consisted of two 56-pounder (85cwt) guns,〔 six 8-inch (65cwt) muzzle-loading shell guns and two 32-pounder (25cwt) guns. In 1857 the armament was changed to a single 68-pounder (95cwt) smoothbore muzzle-loading gun and a 10-inch (85cwt) gun, while retaining the six 8-inch (65cwt) muzzle-loading shell guns.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Conflict-class sloop」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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