HMS Gannet (1878)
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HMS Gannet in her dock in Chatham, 2005
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| Name: | HMS Gannet |
| Builder: | Sheerness Royal Dockyard |
| Cost: | Hull £39,581, machinery £12,889 |
| Laid down: | 1877 |
| Launched: | 31 August 1878 |
| Commissioned: | 17 April 1879 |
| Decommissioned: | 16 March 1895 |
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| Class and type: | Doterel-class screw composite sloop |
| Displacement: | 1,130 tons |
| Length: | 170 ft 0 in (51.8 m) pp |
| Beam: | 36 ft 0 in (11.0 m) |
| Draught: | 15 ft 9 in (4.8 m) |
| Installed power: | 1,107 ihp (825 kW) |
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| Sail plan: | Ship-rigged originally and at present; barque-rigged in the middle of her career. |
| Speed: | 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph) |
| Range: | 1,480 nmi (2,740 km; 1,700 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 140 |
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HMS Gannet was a Royal Navy Doterel-class screw sloop launched on 31 August 1878. She became a training ship in the Thames in 1903, and was then lent as a training ship for boys in the Hamble from 1913. She was preserved in 1987 and is now part of the UK's National Historic Fleet.
The Doterel class were a development of the Osprey-class sloops and were of composite construction, with wooden hulls over an iron frame. The original 1874 design by the Chief Constructor, William Henry White was revised in 1877 by Sir Nathaniel Barnaby and nine were ordered. Of 1,130 tons displacement and approximately 1,100 indicated horsepower, they were capable of approximately 11 knots and were armed with two 7" muzzle-loading rifled guns on pivoting mounts, and four 64-pound guns (two on pivoting mounts, and two broadside). They had a crew of around 140 men.
Gannet was laid down at Sheerness Royal Dockyard in 1877 and launched on 31 August 1878. She was commissioned on 17 April 1879, and was classified as both a sloop of war and a colonial cruiser. She was capable of nearly 12 knots under full steam or 15 knots under sail.
The primary purpose of ships of the Gannet's class was to maintain British naval dominance through trade protection, anti-slavery, and long term surveying.
Gannet served her first commission from 17 April 1879 to 20 July 1883 on the Pacific Station under Admiral De Horsey. She sailed from Portsmouth, across the Atlantic and via Cape Horn to the port of Panama City on the Pacific coast of Central America. She spent much time shadowing the events of the War of the Pacific before embarking on a patrol around the Pacific. She returned to Sheerness to pay off in July 1883, and underwent a two-year refit.
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