HMS Mariner (1884)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Mariner.

HMS Mariner by an unknown artist
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Mariner
Builder	Devonport Dockyard
Cost	Hull: £37,156, Machinery £12,841 [1]
Laid down	8 January 1883
Launched	23 June 1884
Commissioned	19 March 1885 [1]
Fate	Lent to the Liverpool Salvage Association in 1917 Laid up 1922 to 1929 Sold on 19 February 1929
General characteristics
Type	Mariner-class composite screw sloop
Displacement	970 tons
Length	167 ft (51 m)
Beam	32 ft (9.8 m)
Draught	14 ft (4.3 m) [1]
Installed power	850  ihp (630 kW)
Propulsion	2-cylinder horizontal compound expansion steam engine Single screw [1]
Sail plan	Barque-rigged
Speed	11+1⁄2 knots (21.3 km/h)
Range	Approximately 2,100 nmi (3,900 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h) [1]
Complement	126
Armament	8 × 5-inch 38cwt breech-loading guns 1 × light gun 8 × machine guns [1]

HMS Mariner was the name-ship of the Royal Navy Mariner-class composite screw gunvessel of 8 guns. ^[2]

Construction

Designed by Nathaniel Barnaby, ^[1] 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. ^[1]

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. ^[1]

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN   978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC   67375475.

1. Lyon, David & Winfield, Rif (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. Chatham Publishing. ISBN   978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC   52620555.
2. "Cruisers at battleships-cruisers website" . Retrieved 11 August 2008.