HMS Archer (1885)

HMS Archer c.1888
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Archer
Builder:	J & G Thomson, Glasgow
Yard number:	226
Launched:	23 December 1885
General characteristics
Class & 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:	2500 ihp (increased to 4,500 with forced draught)
Propulsion:	Twin 2-cylinder compound steam engines Four boilers Twin screws
Speed:	17.5 kn (32.4 km/h)
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
Armour:	3/8-inch deck 1-inch gunshields 3-inch conning tower

HMS Archer, was an Archer-class torpedo cruiser of the Royal Navy. Archer was laid down in 1885 and came into service on 11 December 1888.^[1] Archer served on the Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa Station from 1889 to 1890.^[2] Archer was serving on the China Station in July 1894, when on the eve of the First Sino-Japanese War, Japanese Forces surrounded Seoul. Archer landed an armed party to protect the British Consol-General after a confrontation between him and Japanese troops.^[3] She served on the Australia Station from 7 September 1900 until 5 December 1903. She was decommissioned in 1905 and sold in April 1905 for £4,800 to Forrester, Swansea for scrap.^[4]

Citations

References

• Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 0-86777-348-0
• Clowes, William Laird (1903). The Royal Navy: A History From the Earliest Times to the Death of Queen Victoria: Volume VII. Sampson Low, Marston and Company.