HMS Mariner (1884)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Mariner.

History
HMS Mariner by an unknown artist
United Kingdom
Class and type:	Mariner class composite screw sloop
Name:	HMS Mariner
Builder:	Devonport Dockyard
Cost:	Hull: £37,156, Machinery £12,841^[1]
Laid down:	8 January 1883
Launched:	23 June 1884
Commissioned:	19 March 1885^[1]
Fate:	Lent to the Liverpool Salvage Association in 1917 Laid up 1922 to 1929 Sold on 19 February 1929
General characteristics
Displacement:	970 tons
Length:	167 ft (51 m)
Beam:	32 ft (9.8 m)
Draught:	14 ft (4.3 m)^[1]
Installed power:	850 ihp (630 kW)
Propulsion:	2-cylinder horizontal compound expansion steam engine Single screw^[1]
Sail plan:	Barque-rigged
Speed:	11 ¹⁄₂ knots (21.3 km/h)
Range:	Approximately 2,100 nmi (3,900 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h)^[1]
Complement:	126
Armament:	8 × 5-inch 38cwt breech-loading guns 1 × light gun 8 × machine guns^[1]

HMS Mariner was the name-ship of the Royal Navy Mariner-class composite screw gunvessel of 8 guns.^[2]

Construction

Designed by Nathaniel Barnaby,^[1] the Royal Navy Director of Naval Construction, her hull was of composite construction; that is, iron keel, frames, stem and stern posts with wooden planking. She was fitted with a 2-cylinder horizontal compound expansion steam engine driving a single screw, produced by Hawthorn Leslie. She was rigged with three masts, with square rig on the fore- and main-masts, making her a barque-rigged vessel. Her keel was laid at Devonport Royal Dockyard on 8 January 1883 and she was launched on 23 June 1884. Her entire class were re-classified in November 1884 as sloops before they entered service.^[1]

Career

Mariner was commissioned into the Royal Navy on 19 March 1885. She became a boom defence vessel in 1903 and was lent to the Liverpool Salvage Association as a salvage vessel in 1917, with her sister-ship Reindeer. She was laid up from 1922 to 1929 and sold to Hughes Bolckow of Blyth on 19 March 1929.^[1]

References

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 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.
↑ "Cruisers at battleships-cruisers website". Retrieved 2008-08-11.

Mariner-class gunvessels/sloops

Mariner Reindeer Racer Icarus Acorn Melita

Preceded by: Dolphin class Followed by: Curlew class List of gunboat and gunvessel classes of the Royal Navy

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