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} |} HMS ''Barracouta'' was the last paddle sloop built for the Royal Navy. She was built at Pembroke Dockyard and launched in 1851. She served in the Pacific theatre of the Crimean War, in the Second Opium War and in the Anglo-Ashanti wars. She paid off for the last time in 1877 and was broken up in 1881. ==Design and construction== ''Barracouta'' was designed as a second-class paddle sloop and ordered from Pembroke Dockyard on 25 April 1847. She was armed with two 10-inch (84 cwt)〔"cwt", or "hundredweight" refers to the weight of the gun itself.〕 pivot guns and four 32-pounder〔"32-pounder" refers to the weight of the shot fired.〕 (25 cwt) guns. Her two-cylinder direct-acting steam engine was provided by Miller, Ravenhill & Salkeld at a cost of £18,228, and produced 300 nominal horsepower, or .〔Winfield (2004), p.162.〕 Her armament was changed in 1856, when one of the 10-inch guns was replaced by a 68-pounder (95 cwt) gun, and the 25 cwt 32-pounders were replaced with 42 cwt versions. In 1862 the 68-pounder was replaced by an Armstrong 110-pounder (82 cwt) breech-loading rifle.〔 Her keel was laid in May 1849〔 and she was launched on 31 March 1851.〔Bastock, pp.64-65.〕 Her total cost was £50,042 and was the only ship ever built to the design, as well as being the last paddle sloop built for the Royal Navy. She was provided with a barque rig.〔 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「HMS Barracouta (1851)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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