HMS Racoon (1887)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Racoon.
Career (United Kingdom)
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
Class and type:Archer-class torpedo cruiser
Displacement:1770 tons
Length:140 ft (43 m)
Beam:36 ft (11 m)
Draught:13.5 ft (4.1 m)
Installed power:2,500 ihp (1,900 kW)
4,500 ihp (3,400 kW) 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:

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][3] She served on the East Indies Station where, on 27 August 1896, she was involved in the bombardment of Sultan Khalid's palace during the 40 minute Anglo–Zanzibar War.[4]

In early May 1901 Racoon returned to the United Kingdom,[5] and was paid off at Sheerness on 6 July 1901.[6]

She was decommissioned on 1 January 1905 and sold for scrap.[2][7]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 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.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 HMS Racoon at Naval History
  3. ↑ Patience 1994, p. 11.
  4. ↑ Patience (1994)
  5. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Wednesday, 24 April March 1901. (36437), p. 11.
  6. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Monday, 8 July 1901. (36501), p. 6.
  7. ↑ Archer Class at Battleships-Cruisers

Bibliography

Patience, Kevin (1994), Zanzibar and the Shortest War in History, Bahrain: Kevin Patience, p. 23