Building Programme
The following table gives the build details and purchase cost of the Shah and the other two iron frigates: Inconstant and Raleigh. Standard British practice at that time was for these costs to exclude armament and stores. (Note that costs quoted by J.W. King were in US dollars.)
| Ship | Builder | Maker of Engines |
Date of | Cost | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laid Down | Launch | Completion | BNA 1887 | King | |||||
| Hull | Machinery | Total |
|||||||
| Inconstant | Pembroke Dockyard | John Penn & Son | 27 November 1866 | 12 November 1868 | 14 August 1869 * | £138,585 | £74,739 | £213,324 | $1,036,756 |
| Raleigh | Chatham Dockyard | Humphrys, Tennant & Co | 8 February 1871 | 1 March 1873 | 13 January 1874 * | £147,248 | £46,138 | £193,386 | $939,586 |
| Shah | Portsmouth Dockyard | Ravenhill | 7 March 1870 | 10 September 1873 | 14 August 1876 | £177,912 | £57,333 | £235,245 | $1,119,861 |
*Date first commissioned.
Her complement was 469 officers and men, 46 boys and 87 marines.
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