HMS Mutine (1880)

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NameHMS Mutine
Builder Devonport Dockyard
CostHull £37,500, machinery £11,770 [1]
Laid down7 June 1879
Launched20 July 1880
Commissioned10 May 1881
Fate
  • Boom defence vessel, 1899
  • Renamed Azov in March 1904
  • Sold for breaking 25 August 1921
General characteristics [1]
Class and type Doterel-class sloop
Displacement1,130 tons
Length170 ft (52 m) pp
Beam36 ft (11 m)
Draught15 ft 9 in (4.80 m)
Installed power1,120  ihp (840 kW)
Propulsion
  • 3 × cylindrical boilers
  • 2-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine
  • Single screw
Sail plan Barque rigged
Speed11.6 knots (21.5 km/h)
Range1,480 nmi (2,740 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h) from 150 tons of coal
Complement140–150
Armament

HMS Mutine was a Doterel-class sloop of the Royal Navy, built at the Devonport Dockyard and launched on 20 July 1880. She became a boom defence vessel at Southampton in 1899 and was renamed Azov in 1904. She was sold after World War I.

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Design

The Doterel class was designed by Nathaniel Barnaby as a development of William Henry White's 1874 Osprey-class sloop. The graceful clipper bow of the Ospreys was replaced by a vertical stem and the engines were more powerful. The hull was of composite construction, with wooden planks over an iron frame. [1]

Propulsion

Power was provided by three cylindrical boilers, which supplied steam at 60 pounds per square inch (410 kPa) to a two-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine driving a single 13-foot-1-inch (3.99 m) screw. This arrangement produced 1,020 indicated horsepower (760 kW) and a top speed of 11 knots (20 km/h). [1]

Armament

Ships of the class were armed with two 7-inch (90 cwt) muzzle-loading rifled guns on pivoting mounts, and four 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns (two on pivoting mounts, and two broadside). Four machine guns and one light gun completed the weaponry. [1]

Sail plan

All the ships of the class were provided with a barque rig, [1] that is, square-rigged foremast and mainmast, and fore-and-aft sails only on the mizzen mast.

Crew

Mutine would have had a normal complement of 140–150 men. [1]

Construction

Mutine was ordered from Devonport Dockyard and laid down on 7 June 1879. She was launched on 20 July 1880 and was commissioned on 10 May 1881 [1] at Devonport. [2]

Service

Sloops of the 1880s and beyond were built to an outmoded design specifically to act as guardians of Britain's far-flung maritime empire; their sailing rig gave them enormous range, and their armament was more than sufficient for minor conflicts around the globe. [3] Mutine was assigned to the Pacific Station, including service in China. [2]

In 1904 Admiral John Fisher (amid great controversy) listed over 90 ships for disposal. Among those listed as "ships available for subsidiary purposes of war" [Note 1] was Mutine. [3] Converted to a boom defence vessel in 1899, [3] she and her sister Espiegle were assigned to the boom protecting Southampton Water. [4] Mutine was renamed Azov in March 1904 (Espiegle became Argo at the same time). [1] They worked throughout World War I in this role.

The Pacific Squadron. Trying rate of sailings, H.M.S. Kingfisher and Mutine coming in to windward of Flag Ship, 9 January 1884 Trying rate of sailings, HMS Kingfisher and Mutine.jpg
The Pacific Squadron. Trying rate of sailings, H.M.S. Kingfisher and Mutine coming in to windward of Flag Ship, 9 January 1884

Fate

Azov (ex-Mutine) was sold to C A Beard for breaking on 25 August 1921. [3] [1]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Ships available for subsidiary purposes of war" were the so called "llamas"; those for sale were the "goats" and those for disposal the "sheep"

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Winfield (2004) p.292
  2. 1 2 "HMS Mutine at the Naval Database website" . Retrieved 1 August 2011.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Preston (2007) p.124
  4. ↑ "Navy List 1908 (Other Lists)". battleshipscruisers website. Retrieved 1 August 2011.

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