HMS Boomerang (1889)

HMS Boomerang anchored at Sydney in c. 1891–1905.
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Whiting
Builder:	Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick, Tyne and Wear
Launched:	24 July 1889
Renamed:	HMS Boomerang (1890)
Fate:	sold in July 1905 at Portsmouth.
General characteristics
Type:	Torpedo gunboat
Displacement:	735 tons
Length:	242 ft (74 m)
Beam:	27 ft (8.2 m)
Draught:	8 ft 6 in (2.59 m)
Installed power:	3,600 ihp (2,700 kW)
Propulsion:	Twin triple-expansion steam engines Locomotive boilers Twin screws (later re-boilered with water-tube boilers)
Speed:	19 kn (35 km/h)
Complement:	91
Armament:	Five 14-inch (360 mm) torpedo tubes (3 reloads) Two QF 4.7-inch (12 cm) guns Four 3-pounder guns[1]

HMS Boomerang was an Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboat of the Royal Navy, originally named HMS Whiting, built by Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick, Tyne and Wear and launched on 24 July 1889.^[2] Renamed Boomerang on 2 April 1890, she formed part of the Auxiliary Squadron of the Australia Station.

Service details

Boomerang arrived in Sydney with the squadron on 5 September 1891. Lieutenant and commander Edward Matthew Hale was appointed in command on 15 February 1900.^[3]

She left the Australia Station on 22 August 1904. She was sold for £1900 in July 1905 at Portsmouth.^[2]

Notes

1. Winfield (2004) p.305
2. Bastock 1988, p.105.
3. "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Tuesday, 30 January 1900. (36052), p. 11.

References

• Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 0-86777-348-0
• Winfield, Rif & Lyon, David (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.

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