HMS Falcon (1854)

Falcon at Portsmouth Point, Spithead in 1859
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Falcon
Ordered	2 April 1853
Builder	Plymouth Dockyard
Laid down	November 1853
Launched	10 August 1854
Commissioned	30 March 1855
Decommissioned	1869
Fate	Broken up at Plymouth in 1869
General characteristics
Class and type	Cruizer-class screw sloop
Displacement	1,045 tons [1]
Tons burthen	747+51⁄94 bm[1]
Length	160 ft (49 m) (gundeck) 140 ft 1.75 in (42.7165 m) (keel)
Beam	31 ft 10 in (9.70 m)[1]
Depth of hold	17 ft 6 in (5.33 m)[1]
Installed power	100 nominal horsepower 312 ihp (233 kW)[1]
Propulsion	Two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine Single screw[1]
Sail plan	Barque-rigged
Speed	7.8 knots (14.4 km/h; 9.0 mph)
Armament	1 × 32 pdr (56 cwt) pivot gun 16 × 32 pdr (32 cwt) carriage guns
Service record
Commanders:	Algernon Heneage

HMS Falcon was a 17-gun Royal Navy Cruizer-class sloop launched in 1854. She served in the Baltic Sea during the Crimean War and then in North America, West Africa and Australia. She was sold for breaking in 1869.