HMS Mariner (1884)

HMS "Mariner" was the name-ship of the 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 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.

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.

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