HMS Mariner was the name-ship of the Royal Navy Mariner-class composite screw gunvessel of 8 guns.[2]
.jpg) HMS Mariner by an unknown artist
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| 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] |
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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) |
| Propulsion |
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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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Construction edit
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 edit
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 edit
- 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.