HMS Galatea (1859)

	HMS Galatea pictured c.1868.
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Galatea
Ordered	9 April 1856
Builder	Woolwich Dockyard; Engines by John Penn & Son;
Laid down	2 February 1857
Launched	14 September 1859
Completed	By February 1862
Fate	Broken up in June 1883
General characteristics
Class and type	Jason-class corvette
Displacement	4,686 tons
Tons burthen	3,227 bm
Length	280 ft (85.3 m) (overall); 245 ft 8 in (74.9 m) (keel);
Beam	50 ft (15.2 m)
Depth of hold	19 ft 4 in (5.89 m)
Propulsion	Sails; 2-cyl. horizontal single expansion; Rectangular boilers; Single screw; 800 nhp; 3,061 ihp = 11.796 kn;
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	450
Armament	Middle deck: 24 × 10 in (85 cwt) MLSB shell guns (broadside); Upper deck: 2 × 68-pdr (65 cwt) MLSB (pivot-mounted); Later replaced by slide-mounted 110-pdr Armstrong BLs;

HMS Galatea was a Jason-class^[1] 26-gun, sixth-rate, wooden screw frigate in the Royal Navy, launched in 1859 and broken up 1883.

History
HMS Galatea pictured c.1868.
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Galatea
Ordered	9 April 1856
Builder	Woolwich Dockyard Engines by John Penn & Son
Laid down	2 February 1857
Launched	14 September 1859
Completed	By February 1862
Fate	Broken up in June 1883
General characteristics
Class and type	Jason-class corvette
Displacement	4,686 tons
Tons burthen	3,227 bm
Length	280 ft (85.3 m) (overall) 245 ft 8 in (74.9 m) (keel)
Beam	50 ft (15.2 m)
Depth of hold	19 ft 4 in (5.89 m)
Propulsion	Sails 2-cyl. horizontal single expansion Rectangular boilers Single screw 800 nhp 3,061 ihp = 11.796 kn
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	450
Armament	Middle deck: 24 × 10 in (85 cwt) MLSB shell guns (broadside) Upper deck: 2 × 68-pdr (65 cwt) MLSB (pivot-mounted) Later replaced by slide-mounted 110-pdr Armstrong BLs