HMS Vulcan (1889)

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HMS Vulcan, Torpedo Depot ship
Career (UK) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Vulcan
Builder: Portsmouth Dockyard
Launched: 1889
General characteristics
Displacement: 6820 tons
Length: 350 ft (110 m) pp
Beam: 58 ft (18 m)
Draught: 23 ft 6 in (7.16 m)
Propulsion: Humphrys and Tennant. 12,000 IHP twin screw
Speed: 20 kts
Complement: 432
Armament: 8x4.7 in
12x 3 pdr
1 boat gun
16x machine guns
held on deck:
6x 16ft torpedo boats
2x countermining launches
4 other steam boats
Armour: Steel deck, 2.5-5 in

HMS Vulcan was a torpedo boat depot ship launched in 1889, converted to a training hulk, and scrapped in 1955.

The increasing numbers of torpedo boats which had entered service produced the need for a specialist support ship. Vulcan could carry six torpedo boats on her deck and had repair workshops and equipment stores. She had an armoured deck and could act as a light cruiser.[1]


Notes

  1. Clowes p.41

References

  • William Laird Clowes (1903). 'The Royal Navy: a history from the earliest times to the present, Vol 7'. London: S.Low, Marston and company.  (available at internet archive)