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Name: TERROR
Type: Floating Battery
Keel: 31/12/1855
Launched: 24/04/1856
Completed: 05/1856
Builder: Palmer Brothers & Co
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 52
Dimensions: 1844disp, 186.0 x 48.5 x 6.6(draft)ft
Engines: 200hp
Engines by: Napier & Co, Glasgow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Wood & Iron
Armament: 16 x 1 x 68pdr guns
History:
05/1856 British Royal Navy
1902 Sold
No further history known
Comments: Built during the Crimean war to bombard Kronstad
1857: Base ship at Bermuda
1902: Sold to Walker & Co, Bermuda, probably for breaking up


Newcastle Courant, Friday, 25/04/1856