HMS Reindeer (1883)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Reindeer.

HMS Racer
HMS Racer, sister ship to HMS Reindeer
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Reindeer
BuilderDevonport Dockyard
CostHull: £34,834, Machinery: £12,787[1]
Laid down15 January 1883[1]
Launched14 November 1883
Fate
  • Lent to the Liverpool Salvage Association in 1917 and renamed Reindeer I
  • Sold on 12 July 1924
General characteristics
Displacement970 tons
Length167 ft (51 m)
Beam32 ft (9.8 m)
Draught14 ft (4.3 m)[1]
Installed power850 ihp (630 kW)
Propulsion
  • 2-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine
  • Single screw[1]
Sail planBarque-rigged
Speed11+1⁄2 knots (21.3 km/h)
RangeApproximately 2,100 nmi (3,900 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h)[1]
Complement126
Armament

HMS Reindeer was a Royal Navy Mariner-class composite screw gunvessel of 8 guns.[2]

Construction

Designed by Nathaniel Barnaby,[1] the Royal Navy Director of Naval Construction, her hull was of composite construction; that is, iron keel, frames, stem and stern posts with wooden planking. She was fitted with a 2-cylinder horizontal compound expansion steam engine driving a single screw, produced by Hawthorn Leslie. She was rigged with three masts, with square rig on the fore- and main-masts, making her a barque-rigged vessel. Her keel was laid at Devonport Royal Dockyard on 15 January 1883 and she was launched on 14 November 1883. Her entire class were re-classified in November 1884 as sloops before they entered service.

Career

She was converted to a boom defence vessel in 1904. During World War I, she collided with the Royal Navy stores carrier HMS Immingham in the Mediterranean Sea on 6 June 1915, sinking Immingham.[3] She was lent to the Liverpool Salvage Association as a salvage vessel in 1917. Re-engined in 1918 by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company with a 2,100 horsepower (1,566 kW) engine,[4] she was renamed Reindeer I and sold to the Halifax Shipyard Ltd as a salvage ship on 12 July 1924.[1] She was abandoned at sea on 12 March 1932. Her 30 crew were rescued by the ocean liner Montcalm.[5][6]

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.
  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (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.
  2. ^ "Cruisers at battleships-cruisers website". Retrieved 11 August 2008.
  3. ^ "BRITISH NAVAL VESSELS LOST AT SEA Part 1 of 2 - Abadol (oiler) to Lynx (destroyer)". Naval History. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
  4. ^ Moore, John E, ed. (1990). Janes fighting ships of World War I. Studio Editions. p. 91. ISBN 1-85170-378-0.
  5. ^ "Casualty reports". The Times. No. 46081. London. 14 March 1932. col G, p. 24.
  6. ^ "A North Atlantic rescue". The Times. No. 46082. London. 15 March 1932. col C, p. 13.