HMS Esk (1854)

Profile of Esk's sister-ship Highflyer dated 1863
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Esk
Ordered	18 August 1852
Builder	J. Scott Russell & Co., Millwall
Laid down	April 1853
Launched	12 June 1854
Commissioned	21 December 1854
Decommissioned	1868
Fate	Broken up at Portsmouth in 1870
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Highflyer-class corvette
Displacement	1,737 1⁄2 tons
Tons burthen	1,153 bm
Length	192 ft (59 m) oa 167 ft 3+3⁄4 in (50.997 m) pp
Beam	36 ft 4 in (11.07 m)
Draught	15 ft 9 in (4.80 m)
Depth of hold	22 ft 8 in (6.91 m)
Installed power	657 ihp (490 kW)
Propulsion	2-cylinder inclined single-expansion oscillating steam engine Single screw
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Speed	9.4 kn (17.4 km/h) under steam
Armament	As built: 21 guns: 1 × 10-inch/84-pdr (85cwt) gun 20 × 32-pounder (42cwt) long guns Later: 1 × 10-inch/84-pdr (85cwt) gun 18 × 8-inch guns

HMS Esk was a 21-gun Highflyer-class screw corvette launched on 12 June 1854 from J. Scott Russell & Co., Millwall.^[2] She saw action in the Crimean War, the Second Opium War and the Tauranga Campaign in New Zealand, and was broken up at Portsmouth in 1870.