HMS Renard (1873)
History | |
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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] Under the command of Captain Pugh, she was engaged in anti-blackbirding operations in 1876 and visited Nukufetau in the Ellice Islands in search of Bully Hayes, who was notorious for his blackbirding activities.[3]
She was paid off in 1883 and sold.[2] She was then employed in the Soloman Island trade.
Citations
References
- Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 0-86777-348-0
- 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.
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