HMS Endymion (1865)
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HMS Endymion rounding the Cape of Good Hope.
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| Name: | HMS Endymion |
| Builder: | Deptford Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 20 October 1860 |
| Launched: | 18 November 1865 |
| Completed: | September 1866 |
| Commissioned: | 27 September 1866 |
| Decommissioned: | 31 July 1879 |
| Fate: | Loaned out 1881, sold in 1885 |
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| Name: | Endymion |
| Owner: | Metropolitan Asylums Board |
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| In service: | 1881 |
| Out of service: | 1904 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1905 |
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| Displacement: | 3,197 long tons (3,248 t) |
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| Length: | 240 ft (73.2 m) |
| Beam: | 47 ft 11 in (14.6 m) |
| Draught: | 18 ft 8 in (5.69 m) |
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| Propulsion: | Sails, 1 × 500 nhp steam engine, 1 shaft |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Speed: | 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph) |
| Complement: | 450 |
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HMS Endymion was a 21-gun Ister-class wooden screw frigate, the third of four ships of this name to serve in the Royal Navy. She was the last wooden frigate built at Deptford Dockyard. She was commissioned in 1866 and spent much of her service based at Malta. In 1869–70 she sailed around the world as part of a Flying Squadron. She remained in front-line service until 1874.
Endymion then served as a guard ship at Hull, Yorkshire until 1879, latterly with her boilers condemned as unfit for service. A plan to use her as a flagship at Harwich, Essex from 1875 was abandoned due to the loss of HMS Vanguard. During her time at Hull, crew from Endymion assisted the local police in fighting a number of fires in buildings and timber yards.
Emdymion was lent to the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1881 for use as an administration and hospital ship, initially at Greenwich, Kent and later at Dartford. She was sold out of service in 1885, and served as an administration ship until 1904. Endymion was sold in December 1904 and broken up in 1905.
Endymion was 240 feet (73.2 m) long, with a beam of 47 feet 11 inches (14.6 m), and a draught of 18 feet 8 inches (5.69 m). She was designed with a beam of 47 feet 10 inches (14.6 m) and a burthen of 2,478 30⁄94 tons BOM and displaced 3,197 tons. She was to be fitted with 36 guns and had a complement of 450. Propulsion was by a steam engine of 500 nominal horsepower, which was built by Napier & Sons, Glasgow. The engine drove a single screw propeller of 18 feet (5.49 m) diameter and 21 feet (6.40 m) pitch. The propeller was 3 feet 6 inches (1.07 m) long, and the tips of the blades were 7 feet 6 inches (2.29 m) beneath the surface of the water. She was also rigged as a full-rigged ship.
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