HMS Racoon (1887)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Racoon.
Career
Name: HMS Racoon
Ordered: 1885[1]
Builder: Devonport Dockyard
Cost: Hull: £60,600
Machinery: £31,000[1]
Laid down: 1 February 1886
Launched: 6 May 1887
Commissioned: 1 March 1888
Decommissioned: 1 January 1905
Fate: Sold to G Cohen on 4 April 1905[1]
General characteristics
Displacement: 1770 tons
Length: 140 ft (43 m)
Beam: 36 ft (11 m)
Draught: 13.5 ft (4.1 m)
Installed power: 2500 ihp (increased to 4,500 with forced draught)
Propulsion: Twin 2-cylinder compound steam engines
Four boilers
Twin screws
Speed: 17.5 kn (32.4 km/h)[1]
Range: 7,000 nmi (13,000 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h)
Complement: 176 men
Armament:
  • Six 6-inch (5 ton) guns
  • Eight 3-pounder QF guns
  • Two machine guns
  • One light gun
  • One 14-inch torpedo tube
  • Four torpedo carriages[1]
Armour:
  • 3/8-inch deck
  • 1-inch gunshields
  • 3-inch conning tower[1]

HMS Racoon, sometimes spelled HMS Raccoon, was an Archer-class torpedo cruiser of the Royal Navy. Racoon was laid down on 1 February 1886 and came into service on 1 March 1888.[2] On 27 August 1896 Racoon was involved in the bombardment of Sultan Khalid's palace during the 40 minute Anglo–Zanzibar War.[3] She was decommissioned on 1 January 1905 and sold for scrap.[2][4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Winfield, Rif; Lyon, David (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555. 
  2. ^ a b HMS Racoon at Naval History
  3. ^ Patience 1994, p. 11.
  4. ^ Archer Class at Battleships-Cruisers

Bibliography

Patience, Kevin (1994), Zanzibar and the Shortest War in History, Bahrain: Kevin Patience 

Archer-class torpedo cruiser

HMS Archer · HMS Brisk · HMS Cossack · HMS Mohawk · HMS Porpoise · HMS Racoon · HMS Serpent · HMS Tartar ·

Preceded by: Scout-class torpedo cruiser

Followed by:
List of cruisers of the Royal Navy