HMS Reindeer (1866)
HMS Rinaldo, a sister-ship of Reindeer | |
Career | |
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Name: | HMS Reindeer |
Builder: | Royal Dockyard, Chatham |
Laid down: | May 1860 |
Launched: | 1866-03-29 |
Commissioned: | October 1866 |
Fate: | Sold out of service, 28 August 1873 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Camelion-class sloop |
Displacement: | 1,365 tons |
Length: | 185 ft (56 m) |
Beam: | 33 ft (10 m) |
Draught: | 14 ft 8 in (4.47 m) |
Propulsion: | Screw; 200 hp engine |
Speed: | 9 kts |
Complement: | 180 |
Armament: | 5 x 40 pdr guns 12 x 32 pdr guns |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Reindeer.
HMS Reindeer was a Royal Navy wooden-hulled screw-driven sloop of the Camelion class, in service from 1866 to 1876. In 1868 she claimed Caroline Island for the British Crown.
References
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
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