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Name: BRITOMART
Type: Gunboat
Keel Laid 11/11/1859
Launched: 07/05/1860
Completed: 03/01/1861
Builder: T & W Smith, Limekilns Shore
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 330disp, 120.0 x 22.0 x 9.0ft
Engines: 1cyl, 60nhp, 277ihp, 9.0knots
Engines by: John Penn & Sons, London
Propulsion: 1 x Screw and rigged as a Barquentine
Construction: Wood
Armament: 2 x 1 x 68pdr guns
History:
03/01/1861 British Royal Navy
12/01/1892 Henry Castle & Sons
12/01/1892 S Williams, Dagenham
06/1946 Broken up
Comments: A member of the Britomart Class
19/10/1859: Ordered
Armament and engines fitted at Woolwich
12/01/1892: Used as a mooring/coaling hulk


Above photo is courtesy of David Asprey

Above photo shows BRITOMART as a mooring hulk. Photo is courtesy of Ben Mann