HMS Rapid anchored at Farm Cove, Sydney c. 1888. |
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| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Rapid |
| Builder: | Devonport Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 21 April 1881 |
| Launched: | 21 March 1883 |
| Commissioned: | 9 September 1884 |
| Renamed: | C7 in 1912 Hart in 1916 |
| Fate: |
Hulked in 1906 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Satellite-class sloop |
| Displacement: | 1,420 tons |
| Length: | 200 ft (61 m) pp |
| Beam: | 38 ft (12 m) |
| Draught: | 15 ft 9 in (4.80 m)[1] |
| Installed power: | 1,470 ihp (1,096 kW) |
| Propulsion: |
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| Sail plan: | Barque-rigged |
| Range: | Approximately 6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h)[1] |
| Complement: | 170-200 |
| Armament: |
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| Armour: | Internal steel deck over machinery and magazines |
HMS Rapid was an Satellite-class composite screw sloop of the Royal Navy, built at Devonport Dockyard and launched on 21 March 1883.[3] She was later reclassified as a corvette. Initially on service with the Cape of Good Hope and West Africa Station, she commenced service on the Australia Station in 1886. she recommisionned three times in Sydney and left the Australia Station on 1 December 1897.[3] Hulked in 1906, she was converted into a coal hulk in 1912 and was renamed C7. Became an accommodation ship in 1916 and was renamed Hart. She was sold at Gibraltar in 1948.[3]
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