HMS Osprey (1876)
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Osprey.
| Career (United Kingdom) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Osprey |
| Namesake: | Osprey |
| Builder: | Sheerness Royal Dockyard |
| Cost: | Hull £39,664, machinery £11,674 |
| Laid down: | 1875 |
| Launched: | 5 August 1876 |
| Completed: | 19 April 1877 |
| Decommissioned: | 1889 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 29 April 1890 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Osprey-class screw composite sloop |
| Displacement: | 1,130 long tons (1,150 t) |
| Length: | 170 ft (51.8 m) (p/p) |
| Beam: | 36 ft (11.0 m) |
| Draught: | 15 ft 9 in (4.8 m) |
| Depth: | 19 ft 6 in (5.9 m) |
| Installed power: | 946 ihp (705 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 1 shaft 1 × 2-cylinder horizontal compound expansion steam engine 3 × cylindrical boilers |
| Sail plan: | Barque rig |
| Speed: | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Range: | 1,480 nmi (2,740 km; 1,700 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 140 |
| Armament: | 2 × 7-inch rifled muzzle-loading guns 4 × 6.3-inch 64-pounder rifled muzzle-loading guns |
HMS Osprey was an Osprey-class sloop built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1870s.
References
Bibliography
- Ballard, G. A. (1939). "British Sloops of 1875: The Larger Ram-Bowed Type". Mariner's Mirror (Cambridge, UK: Society for Nautical Research) 25 (January): 35–49.
- Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
- 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.
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