HMS Ringdove (1889)

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NameHMS Ringdove
Builder Devonport Dockyard
Laid down1 June 1888
Launched30 April 1889
FateSold in 1920
General characteristics [1]
Class and type Redbreast-class gunboat
Displacement805 tons
Length165 ft 0 in (50.3 m) pp
Beam31 ft 0 in (9.4 m)
Draught11 ft 0 in (3.4 m) min, 13 ft 9 in (4.2 m) max
Installed power1,200  ihp (890 kW)
Propulsion
  • Triple-expansion steam engine
  • 2 × boilers
  • Single screw
Speed13 kn (24 km/h)
Range2,500 nmi (4,600 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h)
Complement76
Armament

HMS Ringdove was a Redbreast-class gunboat of the Royal Navy, built at Devonport Dockyard and launched on 30 April 1889. [2]

Contents

She commenced service on the Australia Station on 5 March 1890, under the command of R. F. Ayscough. [2] She left the Australia Station in February 1901 and returned to England, where she was paid off at Devonport 10 June 1901 and placed in the fleet reserve to be refit at Haulbowline. [3] She became a tender to HMS Vernon and was converted into a salvage vessel in 1915 and was renamed HMS Melita. [2]

Fate

She was sold to the Ship Salvage Corporation on 22 January 1920 [1] and renamed Telima. She was broken up in 1926.

Citations

  1. 1 2 Winfield (2004) p. 300
  2. 1 2 3 Bastock, p. 114.
  3. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36478. London. 11 June 1901. p. 10.

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