HMS Reindeer (1866)

HMS Rinaldo, a sister-ship of Reindeer
Career
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.

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