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| Name | Curacoa (1878) | Explanation | |
| Type | Corvette | ||
| Launched | 18 April 1878 | ||
| Hull | Steel | ||
| Propulsion | Screw | ||
| Builders measure | |||
| Displacement | 2380 tons | ||
| Guns | 14 | ||
| Fate | 1904 | ||
| Class | Comus | ||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | |||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 24 February 1880 - 1 May 1881 | Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth) by Captain William Henry Cuming, China | ||
| 6 November 1884 - 22 June 1886 | Commanded by Captain John Graham Job Hanmer, China | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Fr 19 April 1878 | Messrs. John Elder and Co. launched yesterday, from their building-yard at Glasgow, a steam corvette named the Curacoa, the second of six vessels of this class which they are at present constructing for the Admiralty. The Curacoa is a single-screw steel and iron corvette, sheathed with wood, and is intended principally for foreign service. She is ship-rigged, and the propeller being made to lift she can be used as a sailing vessel. The ship's complement is 245, all told. The principal officers are berthed in the poop and on the lower deck, the crew occupying the remainder of the lower deck. The armament consists of two 90-cwt. And 12 64-pounder guns. One of the 90-cwt. Guns is fitted up in the forecastle, and fires all round the bow, the other being fitted up under the poop. The 64-pounders are on the upper deck, six on each side. The vessel carries eight small boats —one a steam launch and one a pinnace. The principal dimensions of the Curacoa are — length between perpendiculars, 225ft.; breadth (extreme), 44ft 6in.; depth (moulded), 24ft.; draught of water, aft, 18ft. 6in.; fore, 19ft.; displacement in tons, 2,377 tons. The vessel is fitted with a spare rudder aft under the screw shaft, which is intended to be used only in case of the main rudder being damaged. The engine. Magazine, and boiler spaces are protected by a shell proof deck of steel, 1½in. Thick, while all the openings through it are fitted with shutters or gratings also shell proof. To further protect these parts of the vessel the coal bunkers are fitted at the sides of the ship, thus offering a considerable resistance to any shot entering the vessel, while the bunkers themselves are watertight and sub-divided into compartments, thus confining any damage that might be sustained to one part. The stem and stem posts consist of solid gun metal castings, and the stem below water projects so as to form a ram. The engines are compound surface condensing, with three cylinders, and are intended to give fully 2,300 indicated horse power. With this power the vessel will, it is expected, be propelled at the rate of 13 knots per hour. There are six boilers, arranged in two water-tight compartments, so that either set of three could to used without the other in case of accident. | ||
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