HMS Jumna (1866)

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HMS Jumna about 1885
History
Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svgUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Jumna
Ordered1865
Builder Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Hebburn
Yard number190
Launched24 September 1866
Fate
  • Became coal hulk C110 in 1893
  • Sold as hulk Oceanic in July 1922
General characteristics
Class and type Euphrates-class troopship
Type Troopship
Displacement6,211 tons
Tons burthen4,173 tons BM
Length360 ft (109.7 m) (overall)
Beam49 ft 1.5 in (15.0 m)
Depth of hold22 ft 4 in (6.81 m)
Installed power
  • As built: 4,894 ihp (3,649 kW)
  • From 1873: 3,044 ihp (2,270 kW) [1]
Propulsion
  • 3-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam (later, compound-expansion) steam engine
  • Single screw
Sail plan Barque-rigged
Speed15 kn (28 km/h)
ArmamentThree 4-pounder guns

HMS Jumna was a Euphrates-class troopship launched at Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company at Hebburn on 24 September 1866. She was the third vessel of the Royal Navy to carry the name.

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Design

Jumna was one of five iron-hulled vessels of the Euphrates class. All five were built to a design of 360 ft overall length by about 49 ft breadth, although Malabar was very slightly smaller than the rest of the class. They had a single screw, a speed of 14 knots, one funnel, a barque-rig sail plan, three 4-pounder guns, and a white painted hull. Her bow was a "ram bow" which projected forward below the waterline.

She was commissioned jointly by the British Admiralty and the Indian government. [2]

Identification

The Euphrates-class troopships could each be identified by a different coloured hull band. The Jumna's hull band was red. The blue hull band of her sister Euphrates became the standard for all HM Troopships. [3]

History

Troop-Ships Orontes, Jumna, Malabar, and Euphrates at Bombay, waiting to bring Home Troops from the Afghan War in 1880 Troop-Ships Orontes, Jumna, Malabar, and Euphrates at Bombay, waiting to bring Home Troops from the Afghan War - ILN 1880.jpg
Troop-Ships Orontes, Jumna, Malabar, and Euphrates at Bombay, waiting to bring Home Troops from the Afghan War in 1880

She spent most of her active career conveying British troops to and from the Indian subcontinent. In 1870 she transported The Connaught Rangers from India back to Britain.

In 1873 her Maudslay, Sons and Field 3-cylinder single-expansion steam engine was modified at Portsmouth by the replacement of one low-pressure cylinder with a smaller, high-pressure one, giving her a more efficient compound-expansion engine, albeit with less power and a new top speed of 13 knots (24 km/h). [1]

Jumna circa 1884 on operations for the 1st Sudan War HMS Jumna circa 1884 on operations for the 1st Sudan War 132552.jpg
Jumna circa 1884 on operations for the 1st Sudan War

On 25 August 1883, she collided with HMS Minotaur at Plymouth and ran aground. [4] She shipped back the York and Lancaster Regiment to England from Sudan 29 March to April 1884 [5] In March 1886, she collided with the German steamship Hesperia in the Suez Canal but was not damaged. [6]

There are references among Royal Navy Seamen's Services, 1848-1939 that the HMS Jumna was "Depot ship" in Bombay in 1909 and used as training vessel.

Fate

In December 1902 she was still listed as HMS Jumna as she relieved HMS Caledonia as training ship for boys at Queensferry, taking the crew from that ship. [7] A chart showing the moorings in the Firth of Forth adjacent to the Rosyth Naval Base in September 1918 has a mooring marked 'Jumna', and it is possible that this was HMS Jumna, serving as a coal hulk for the fleet. [8]

She became the coal hulk C110 and was sold as the hulk Oceanic in July 1922. [1] [9]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 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.
  2. ↑ Sir Edward Reed, "The British Navy", Harper's Monthly Magazine (European edition), February 1886
  3. ↑ The Royal Navy at Malta, Volume One: The Victorian Era – 1865–1906, page 51, by Richard Ellis & Lt. Cdr. Ben Warlaw RN – ISBN   0907771432
  4. ↑ "Naval And Military Intelligence". The Times. No. 30909. London. 27 August 1883. col A, p. 5.
  5. ↑ "Article based on a Folkestone Advertiser article 8 May 1884 about 65th's history". Wanganui Herald, NZ. 24 July 1884. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  6. ↑ "Latest Shipping Intelligence". The Times. No. 31719. London. 29 March 1886. col F, p. 7.
  7. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36942. London. 4 December 1902. p. 9.
  8. ↑ National Archives file ADM 137/1647 'Charts from papers: Home Waters, Volume I'
  9. ↑ Colledge. Ships of the Royal Navy. p. 83.

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