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HMS Congo (1816)
HMS ''Congo'' was the first steam-powered warship built for the Royal Navy. She was classified as a steam sloop and was built in 1816 at Deptford Dockyard specifically for an exploration of the Congo River. Trials with her engines proved disappointing, and it was removed before she embarked on her first voyage.
==Design and construction==
''Congo'' was ordered on 13 April 1815 to a design by Sir Robert Seppings. She was laid down in October 1815 and launched on 11 January 1816. She was armed with one 12pdr carronade and twelve ½pdr swivel guns. The steam engine is recorded as weighing 30 tons and was capable of developing 20 Horse Power.
Trials proved that this power, when transmitted to the paddle wheels, could only propel the vessel at about three knots. Such a rate of progress, coupled with unsatisfactory handling characteristics (she was described as ''very crank'') resulted in the engines and paddle wheels being removed. Examination of the situation by James Watt Junior, son of James Watt, could only come up with a recommendation to use the engine for pumping out docks at Plymouth. Thus, the ''Congo'' sailed to her destination without the steam engine, rigged as a schooner.
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