HMS Reindeer (1883)
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 United Kingdom
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| Class and type: | Mariner-class composite screw sloop |
| Name: | HMS Reindeer |
| Builder: | Devonport Dockyard |
| Cost: | Hull: £34,834, Machinery: £12,787[1] |
| Laid down: | 15 January 1883[1] |
| Launched: | 14 November 1883 |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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HMS Reindeer was a 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 15 January 1883 and she was launched on 14 November 1883. Her entire class were re-classified in November 1884 as sloops before they entered service.
Career
She was converted to a boom defence vessel in 1904, and was lent to the Liverpool Salvage Association as a salvage vessel in 1917. Re-engined in 1918 by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company with a 2,100 horsepower (1,566 kW) engine,[3] she was renamed Reindeer I and sold to the Halifax Shipyard Ltd as a salvage ship on 12 July 1924.[1] She was abandoned at sea on 12 March 1932. Her 30 crew were rescued by the ocean liner Montcalm.[4][5]
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 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.
- ↑ Moore, John E (Editor) (1990). Janes fighting ships of World War I. Studio Editions. p. 91. ISBN 1-85170-378-0.
- ↑ "Casualty reports" The Times (London). Monday, 14 March 1932. (46081), col G, p. 24.
- ↑ "A North Atlantic rescue" The Times (London). Tuesday, 15 March 1932. (46082), col C, p. 13.
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