HMS Swallow (1885)

History
Name: HMS Swallow
Builder: Sheerness Dockyard
Cost: £44,797 (hull), £15,000 (machinery)[1]
Laid down: 1 November 1885[1]
Launched: 27 October 1885[1]
Commissioned: 7 October 1886[1]
Fate: Sold 1904[2]
General characteristics [3]
Displacement: 1,140 long tons (1,160 t)
Length: 195 ft (59.4 m)
Beam: 28 ft (8.5 m)
Draught: 12 ft 6 in (3.8 m)
Propulsion:
Sail plan: Schooner-rigged
Speed: 13.5 kn (25.0 km/h; 15.5 mph)
Endurance: 3,000 nmi (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement: 138
Armament:

HMS Swallow was a Nymphe-class composite screw sloop and the twenty-seventh ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name. Developed and constructed for the Royal Navy on a design by William Henry White, Director of Naval Construction, she was launched at Sheerness Dockyard on 27 October 1885.[5]

Service history

Swallow was commissioned by commander Edward Fitzmaurice Inglefield in 1899, to serve on the South America Station. She was in Montevideo in late February 1900, and visited the Falkland Islands the following month.[6]

Fate

Swallow was sold to McCausland & Sons in 1904.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Winfield (2004)
  2. ↑ "Naval Sloops at battleships-cruisers.co.uk". Retrieved 2017-12-08.
  3. ↑ Chesneau and Kolesnik 1979, pp. 58.
  4. ↑ Preston (2007) p.182
  5. ↑ Naval sloops
  6. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36076). London. 27 February 1900. p. 6.
  • 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.
  • Preston, Antony; Major, John (2007). Send a Gunboat: The Victorian Navy and Supremacy at Sea, 1854–1904 (2nd ed.). London: Conway. ISBN 978-0-85177-923-2.


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