HMS Mariner (1884)

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HMS Mariner
HMS Mariner by an unknown artist
Career (United Kingdom)
Class and type: Mariner class composite screw sloop
Name: HMS Mariner
Builder: Devonport Dockyard
Cost: Hull: £37,156, Machinery £12,841[1]
Laid down: 8 January 1883
Launched: 23 June 1884
Commissioned: 19 March 1885[1]
Fate: Lent to the Liverpool Salvage Association in 1917
Laid up 1922 to 1929
Sold on 19 February 1929
General characteristics
Displacement: 970 tons
Length: 167 ft (51 m)
Beam: 32 ft (9.8 m)
Draught: 14 ft (4.3 m)[1]
Installed power: 850 hp (634 kW)
Propulsion: 2-cylinder horizontal compound expansion steam engine
Single screw[1]
Sail plan: Barque-rigged
Range: Approximately 2,100 nmi (3,900 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h)[1]
Complement: 126
Armament:
  • 8 x 5in 38cwt Breech Loaders
  • 1 light gun
  • 8 Machine guns[1]

HMS Mariner was the name-ship of the 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 8 January 1883 and she was launched on 23 June 1884. Her entire class were re-classified in November 1884 as sloops before they entered service.[1]

Career

Mariner was commissioned into the Royal Navy on 19 March 1885. She became a boom defence vessel in 1903 and was lent to the Liverpool Salvage Association as a salvage vessel in 1917, with her sister-ship Reindeer. She was laid up from 1922 to 1929 and sold to Hughes Bolckow of Blyth on 19 March 1929.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Winfield, Rif; Lyon, David (2003). The Sail and Steam Navy List, 1815-1889. Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1861760326. 
  2. "Cruisers at battleships-cruisers website". http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/cruisers.htm. Retrieved 2008-08-11.