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HMS Cormorant c. 1878
History United Kingdom Name HMS Cormorant Builder Chatham Royal Dockyard Cost Hull £37,630, machinery £11,587[1] Laid down 1875 Launched 12 September 1877 Commissioned 2 July 1878 Decommissioned Hulked , November 1889Renamed Rooke , July 1946Fate Broken up at Málaga in 1949[1] General characteristics Class and type Osprey -classsloop Displacement 1,130 long tons (1,150 t ) Length 170 ft (51.8 m ) (p/p ) Beam 36 ft (11.0 m ) Draught 15 ft 9 in (4.8 m ) Depth 19 ft 6 in (5.9 m ) Installed power 951 ihp (709 kW ) Propulsion
Sail plan Barque rigSpeed 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)Range 1,480 nmi (2,740 km; 1,700 mi ) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) Complement 140 Armament
HMS Cormorant was an Osprey -classsloop launched at Chatham on 12 September 1877 and later the receiving ship at Gibraltar. She was renamed Rooke in 1946 and broken up in 1949.
The Osprey class were of composite construction, with wooden hulls over an iron frame. They were designed by the Chief Constructor , William Henry White and five were ordered. Of 1,130 tons displacement and approximately 950 indicated horsepower (710 kW ), they were capable of approximately 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) and were armed with two 7-inch muzzle-loading rifled guns on pivoting mounts, and four 64-pounder guns (two on pivoting mounts, and two broadside). They had a crew complement of approximately 140 men.
Construction [ edit ]
Cormorant was laid down at Chatham Royal Dockyard in 1875 and launched on 12 September 1877.[1] [1]
Operational history [ edit ]
The primary purpose of ships of the class was to maintain British naval dominance through trade protection, anti-slavery, and surveying.
On 21 May 1871, Cormorant ran into a vessel in the River Medway and was severely damaged.[2] Australia Station , and in April 1886 she was on the Pacific Station .[3] graving dock at the Esquimalt Royal Navy Dockyard .[4]
Cormorant became a receiving ship at Gibraltar in 1889. Lieutenant Arthur Hope Fanshawe was appointed in command of the Cormorant and torpedo boats at Gibraltar on 7 March 1900.[5] Claude Lionel Cumberlege was appointed in command during 1902.[6] flag ship when Rear-Admiral Sir William Acland hoisted his flag on board the Cormorant when he was appointed Admiral Superintendent of the Gibraltar dockyard in October 1902.[7]
She was renamed HMS Rooke in 1946 and was scrapped in 1949, being broken up at Málaga .
References [ edit ]
^ a b c d Winfield, p. 292
^ "Disasters at Sea". Newcastle Courant . No. 10613. Newcastle upon Tyne. 24 May 1878.
^ "HMS Cormorant at the Index of 19th Century Naval Vessels" . Retrieved 16 August 2009 .
^ "Canadian Navy: MARPAC - Maritime Forces Pacific - CFB Esquimalt: Naval Museum" . CFB Esquimalt . Archived from the original on 3 February 2010. Retrieved 3 March 2010 .
^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times . No. 36085. London. 9 March 1900. p. 12.
^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times . No. 36871. London. 12 September 1902. p. 4.
^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times . No. 36913. London. 31 October 1902. p. 8.
Bibliography [ edit ]
Ballard, G. A. (1939). "British Sloops of 1875: The Larger Ram-Bowed Type". Mariner's Mirror . 25 doi :10.1080/00253359.1939.10657318 .
Colledge, J. J. ; Wardlow, Ben & Bush, Steve (2020). Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present (5th ed.). Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5267-9327-0
Roberts, John (1979). "Great Britain and Empire Forces". In Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M. (eds.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905 ISBN 0-8317-0302-4
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 .
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