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{{Use British English|date=November 2017}}
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| Name                     = ''Swallow'' class
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| Class before             = {{sclass|Cruizer|sloop|4}}
| Class after              = {{sclass|Racer|sloop|4}}
| Subclasses               = 
| Built range              = 1854–1857
| In commission range      = 1856–1876
| Total ships building     = 
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| Total ships completed    = 4
| Total ships cancelled    = 
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| Total ships scrapped     = 4
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|Ship type=[[Sloop-of-war]]
|Ship displacement= 625 tons
|Ship tons burthen=  {{frac|484|68|94}} [[Builder's old measurement|bm]]
|Ship length=*{{convert|139|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} (gundeck)
*{{convert|120|ft|6|in|m|1|abbr=on}} (keel)
|Ship beam={{convert|27|ft|10|in|m|1|abbr=on}}
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|Ship draught=
|Ship hold depth={{convert|13|ft|5|in|m|1|abbr=on}}
|Ship power=*60 [[horsepower#Nominal horsepower|nhp]]
*{{convert|182|-|224|ihp|kW|lk=in|abbr=on}}
|Ship propulsion=*Single screw
*two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine
|Ship sail plan=[[Barque|Barque rig]]
|Ship speed=Approximately {{convert|7|kn|lk=in}}
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|Ship complement=120
|Ship armament=*1 × 32 pdr gun (58 cwt) on pivot
*8 × 32 pdr (25 cwt) carronades
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The '''''Swallow''-class sloop''' was a 9-gun wooden screw [[sloop-of-war|sloop]] class of four ships built for the [[Royal Navy]] between 1854 and 1857.

==Design==
Built of a traditional wooden construction, the ''Swallow'' class were intended as "type of screw vessel below the {{sclass|Cruizer|sloop|5}}".<ref name=RW>Winfield (2004) p.215 - 216</ref>

The class were armed with a single 32-pounder gun (58 cwt) gun on a pivot mount and eight 32-pounder (25 cwt) [[carronade]]s on the broadside.  These guns were all smoothbore muzzle-loading, and were little changed from the standard guns of Nelson's era.<ref name=RW/>

Propulsion was provided by a two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine developing 60 [[horsepower#Nominal horsepower|nominal horsepower]] and an indicated horsepower of between {{convert|182|ihp|kW|lk=in}} and {{convert|224|ihp|kW|lk=in}}.  Propulsion was applied through a single screw and at maximum power under steam, top speed was about {{convert|7|kn|lk=in}}. A [[barque|barque rig]] of sails was carried, which meant the ships of the class had three masts with a square rig on the fore and main masts.<ref name=RW/>  

==Ships==
The first two ships were ordered on 5 July 1852, ''Ariel'' on 2 April 1853 and ''Lyra'' on 3 April 1854.<ref name=RW/>

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|{{HMS|Curlew|1854|2}}||[[Deptford Dockyard]]||19 October 1852||31 May 1854||Sold for breaking on 39 August 1865
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|{{HMS|Swallow|1854|2}}||[[Pembroke Dockyard]]||30 August 1853||12 June 1854||Became a survey ship in 1861. Sold for breaking in December 1866
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|{{HMS|Ariel|1854|2}}||Pembroke Dockyard||November 1853||11 July 1854||Sold for breaking 23 May 1865
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|{{HMS|Lyra|1857|2}}||Deptford Dockyard||8 July 1854||26 March 1857||Broken up in 1876
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==Citations==
{{reflist}}

==References==
*{{winfield}}

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[[Category:Sloops of the Royal Navy]]
[[Category:Victorian-era sloops of the United Kingdom| Swallow]]
[[Category:Sloop classes]]