HMS Renard (1873)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Renard.
Career
Name: HMS Renard
Builder: John Cuthbert, Millers Point, New South Wales
Launched: 16 January 1873
Fate: Sold in March 1883.
General characteristics [1]
Type:Beagle-class schooner
Tons burthen:120 bm
Length:77 ft 0 in (23.5 m)
Beam:18 ft 6 in (5.6 m)
Depth of hold:8 ft 6 in (2.59 m)
Sail plan:Schooner
Complement:27
Armament:1 x 12-pounder gun

HMS Renard was a schooner of the Royal Navy, built by John Cuthbert, Millers Point, New South Wales and launched 16 January 1873.[2]

She commenced service on the Australia Station at Sydney in 1873 for anti-blackbirding operations in the South Pacific and later hydrographic surveys around Chesterfield Islands, Fiji and the Russell Islands.[2] She was paid off in 1883 and sold.[2] She was then employed in the Soloman Island trade.

Citations

  1. Winfield (2004) p.301
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Bastock, p.59.

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