HMS Nimble (1860)

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Nimble's sister ship Jeanette (ex-HMS Pandora) at Le Havre in 1878
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Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svgUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Nimble
Ordered27 March 1858
Builder Pembroke Dockyard, Wales
Laid down30 October 1859
Launched15 September 1860 [1]
Commissioned8 April 1861 [1]
Fate
  • Harbour service 1879
  • RNR training ship at Hull 1885
  • Sold to W R James on 10 July 1906 [1]
General characteristics
Displacement570 tons
Length
  • 145 ft (44.2 m) oa
  • 127 ft 10.25 in (39.0 m) pp
Beam25 ft 4 in (7.7 m) [1]
Depth of hold13 ft (3.96 m)
Installed power334 ihp (249 kW) [1]
Propulsion
  • Single 2-cyl. horizontal single-expansion steam engine by A & J Inglis
  • Single screw
Speed9.9 knots (18 km/h) [1]
Complement60
Armament
  • One 68-pdr muzzle-loading smooth-bore gun
  • Two 24-pdr howitzers
  • Two 20-pdr breech-loading guns [1]

HMS Nimble was a wooden Philomel-class gunvessel of the Royal Navy. She was equipped with 5 guns. She became a drill ship for the Royal Naval Reserve at Hull in 1885 and was disposed of in 1906.

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History

HMS Nimble was launched on 15 September 1860 from the Pembroke Dockyard. In 1861 she was commanded by Lieutenant [ citation needed ] On 1 October 1866, she was blown ashore in a hurricane at Nassau, Bahamas. [2] [3] John D'Arcy on the North America and West Indies Station as a tender to HMS Nile. Commander Frederick William Lee was in command of Nimble from 19 October 1870 to 4 December 1871 and employed at Zanzibar in the suppression of the slave trade. She was placed in harbour service in 1879, and became a Royal Naval Reserve training ship at Hull in 1885.

She was sold to W. R. James on 10 July 1906.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Winfield (2004) p.221
  2. "Ship News". The Times (25548). London. 6 November 1866. col F, p. 10.
  3. "The Hurricane at the Bahamas". The Times (25557). London. 16 November 1866. col B-C, p. 8.

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