HMS Goldfinch (1889)
Officers aboard Goldfinch at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, early 1900s
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| Name: | HMS Goldfinch |
| Builder: | Sheerness Dockyard |
| Cost: | £39,300 |
| Launched: | 18 May 1889 |
| Fate: | Sold 14 May 1907 for breaking |
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| Class and type: | Redbreast-class first-class gunvessel |
| Displacement: | 805 tons |
| Length: | 165 ft 0 in (50.3 m) pp |
| Beam: | 31 ft 0 in (9.4 m) |
| Draught: | 11 ft 0 in (3.35 m) min, 13 ft 9 in (4.19 m) max |
| Installed power: | 1,200 ihp (890 kW) |
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| Sail plan: | Barquentine-rigged |
| Speed: | 13 kn (24 km/h) |
| Range: | 2,500 nmi (4,600 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h) |
| Complement: | 76 |
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HMS Goldfinch was a Redbreast-class gunboat of the Royal Navy, built at Sheerness Dockyard and launched on 18 May 1889.
She commenced service on the Australia Station in March 1890. She left the Australia Station in August 1899 and returned to England. She was converted into a survey vessel in January 1902, and Commander F. C. Learmonth was appointed in command and commissioned her 4 February 1902. She left Sheerness for the Mediterranean later that month on surveying duties.
Goldfinch returned to Sheerness for refitting for continued service in 1906, but was found to be in poor condition and the sloop Mutine was refitted as a survey ship to replace her.Goldfinch was sold on 14 May 1907 for breaking up.
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