The Cheerful-class gunboat was a class of twenty gunboats built for the Royal Navy in 1855 for use in the Crimean War.
Design The Cheerful class was designed by W.H. Walker (who also designed the preceding and classes). The ships were of particularly shallow draft for coastal bombardment in the shallow waters of the Baltic and Black Sea during the Crimean War.
Propulsion One-cylinder horizontal direct-acting single-expansion steam engines built by John Penn and Sons, with two boilers, provided 20 nominal horsepower through a single screw, sufficient for .
Armament Ships of the class were armed with two 32-pounder smooth bore muzzle loading cannons.
Ships
NameShip builderLaunchedFateDeptford Dockyard 6 October 1855 Breaking completed at Haslar on 16 January 1869Sheerness Dockyard 15 October 1855 Breaking completed at Haslar on 29 January 1869Thomas Westbrook, Blackwall 20 March 1856 Breaking completed at Haslar on 7 January 1869Thomas Westbrook, Blackwall 8 April 1856 Broken up at Haslar in 1863John Laird, Sons & Company, Birkenhead 21 April 1856 Breaking completed at Haslar on 21 October 1864John Laird, Sons & Company, Birkenhead 21 April 1856 Broken up in November 1864John Laird, Sons & Company, Birkenhead 10 May 1856 Broken up on 10 August 1864John Laird, Sons & Company, Birkenhead 7 May 1856 Broken up in June 1864William Joyce, Greenwich 7 April 1856 Broken up at Haslar in 1863William Joyce, Greenwich 7 June 1856 Breaking completed at Haslar on 30 April 1864Young, Magnay & Company, Limehouse 3 April 1856 Dockyard craft (steam lump) 1869, sold in Jamaica on 8 July 1873Young, Magnay & Company, Limehouse 3 April 1856 Breaking completed on 12 March 1864Young, Magnay & Company, Limehouse 8 May 1856 Broken up in October 1864Young, Magnay & Company, Limehouse 8 May 1856 Completed breaking at Plymouth on 28 January 1864Devonport Dockyard 8 March 1856 Breaking completed at Haslar on 21 January 1869Devonport Dockyard 22 March 1856 Breaking completed at Haslar on 23 February 1869Pembroke Dockyard 9 February 1856 Broken up at Bermuda in October 1867Pembroke Dockyard 9 February 1856 Hulked 1865, renamed C17 from c.1900, sold to Castle for breaking on 12 April 1904Pembroke Dockyard 21 February 1856 Breaking completed at Haslar on 8 February 1869Pembroke Dockyard 21 February 1856 Breaking completed at Haslar on 7 January 1869
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