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HMS ''Plumper'' was an 8-gun wooden screw sloop of the Royal Navy, the fifth and last ship to bear the name. Launched in 1848, she served three commissions, firstly on the West Indies and North American Station, then on the West Africa Station and finally in the Pacific Station. It was during her last commission as a survey ship that she left her most enduring legacy; in charting the west coast of British Columbia she left her name and those of her ship's company scattered across the charts of the region. She paid off for the last time in 1861 and was finally sold for breaking up in 1865. ==Construction== The Admiralty originally ordered the ship on 25 April 1847 from Woolwich Dockyard as the steam schooner ''Pincher''. She was re-ordered from Portsmouth Dockyard as the screw sloop ''Plumper'' on 12 August 1847 to a design by John Fincham, and laid down in October that year. She was launched on 5 April 1848 at Portsmouth and commissioned under Commander Mathew Nolloth on 17 December.〔 ''Plumper'' was the only ship ever built to the design. She was constructed of wood, was long and in the beam, and drew . This hull gave her a displacement of 577 tons.〔 She was powered by a Miller, Ravenhill & Co two-cylinder vertical single-expansion steam engine driving a single screw. Developing 148 indicated horsepower, this unit was capable of driving her at .〔 Illustrations show her with a barque rig, although this may have been a later alteration. Her armament of 8 guns consisted of six 32-pounder (25 cwt) and two 32-pounder (56 cwt) muzzle-loading smooth-bore guns mounted to fire in a traditional broadside arrangement.〔〔"32-pounder" denotes the weight of projectile fired, 56 (or 25) cwt is the weight of the gun ("cwt" = hundredweight)〕 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 Plumper (1848)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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