HMS Cadmus (1903)
Sister ship Clio dressed overall at Tasmania in 1905
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| Name: | HMS Cadmus |
| Builder: | Sheerness Dockyard |
| Cost: | £76,657 |
| Laid down: | 1902 |
| Launched: | 29 April 1903 |
| Commissioned: | 1904 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 1 September 1921 |
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| Class and type: | Cadmus-class sloop |
| Displacement: | 1,070 long tons (1,087 t) |
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| Beam: | 33 ft (10.1 m) |
| Draught: | 11 ft 3 in (3.4 m) |
| Installed power: | 1,400 ihp (1,000 kW) |
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| Speed: | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Range: | 3,000 nmi (5,600 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h) |
| Complement: | 150 |
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HMS Cadmus was a Cadmus-class sloop of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Sheerness in 1903, spent her entire career in the Far East and was sold at Hong Kong in 1921.
Cadmus was constructed of copper-sheathed steel to a design by William White, the Royal Navy Director of Naval Construction. Her propulsion was provided by a J. Samuel White three-cylinder vertical triple expansion steam engine developing 1,400 horsepower (1,000 kW) and driving twin screws. She and her sisters were an evolution of the Condor-class sloop, carrying more coal, which in turn gave a greater length and displacement. This class comprised the very last screw sloops built for the Royal Navy, and Espiegle was the last Royal Navy ship built with a figurehead.
As designed and built the class was fitted with a barquentine-rigged sail plan. After HMS Condor was lost in a gale in 1901, the Admiralty abandoned sails entirely.Espiegle was never fitted with sails, and the rest of the class had their yards removed in 1914. The official attitude to sails and the loss of yards did not completely prevent the use of sails, and log entries show that fore-and-aft sails were being used in Odin as late as April 1920.
The class was armed with six 4-inch/25pdr (1ton) quick-firing breech loaders and four 3-pounder quick-firing breech loaders, as well as several machine guns.
Cadmus was laid down at Sheerness Dockyard on 11 March 1902, and launched on 29 April 1903. She was commissioned in 1904 for the Far East.
Cadmus started her career on the Australia Station, where she arrived on 13 July 1904; her maiden voyage to Australia was accomplished in record time for a sloop. She was refitted at Cockatoo Island, Sydney in 1905.
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