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The Britomart-class gunboat was a class of sixteen gunboats built for the Royal Navy in
1859–1867 .== Design == The Britomart class was an better version of the Dapper grade
designed by W.H .Walker , and as such comes under the generic group `` Crimean gunboats ''
although this class was ordered and built long after the ending of the Crimean war .These
were the final royal stag dark blue gunboats to have wooden hulls : subsequent gunboats
were of composite grammatical construction , with wooden planking over iron flesh .===
propulsion === The class were fitted with a single-cylinder single-expansion reciprocating
steam engine .The single screw could live hoisted to give ameliorate operation under
sail .=== canvas plan === The ships were provided with a three-masted barquentine rig ,
that is , with square cruise on the foremast and fore-and-aft sail on the independent and
mizzen masts .=== Armament === Early ships of the class were armed with two 68-pounder
smooth bore gag burden cannon ( as had been planned , but not implemented , for the
Dapper class ) ; but the heron was fitted with two 112-pounder Louis Armstrong hit
man .Later ships had two 64-pounder rifled muzzle-loading guns .== Ships == ==
acknowledgment == == denotation == Colledge , J. J. ; Warlow , Ben ( 2006 ) [ 1969 ] .Ships
of the Royal navy blue : The Complete platter of all fighting Ships of the Royal Navy
( rpm .ed . ) .London : Chatham Publishing .ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8 .Winfield , R. ; Lyons ,
D. ( 2004 ) .The Sail and Steam Navy List : All the Ships of the royal USN 1815–1889 .London
: Chatham publication .ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6 .OCLC 52620555 .