HMS Reindeer (1883)

HMS "Reindeer" was a Royal Navy "Mariner" class composite screw gunvessel of 8 guns. [cite web | url = http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/cruisers.htm |title = Cruisers at battleships-cruisers website| accessdate = 2008-08-11]

Construction

Designed by Nathaniel Barnabywinfield] , 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, and 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 convert|2100|hp|0| engine, [cite book |last=Moore |first=John E (Editor)| title=Janes fighting ships of World War I | publisher =Studio Editions | year=1990 | id=ISBN 1-85170-378-0 | pages=p.91 ] she was renamed "Reindeer I" and sold to the Halifax Shipyard Ltd as a salvage ship on 12 July 1924. She was abandoned at sea in March 1932.

References

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