HMS Racoon (1887)

History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Racoon
Ordered:	1885
Builder:	Devonport Dockyard
Cost:	Hull: £60,600 Machinery: £31,000
Laid down:	1 February 1886
Launched:	6 May 1887
Commissioned:	1 March 1888
Decommissioned:	1 January 1905
Fate:	Sold to G Cohen on 4 April 1905
General characteristics
Class and type:	Archer-class torpedo cruiser
Displacement:	1770 tons
Length:	140 ft (43 m)
Beam:	36 ft (11 m)
Draught:	13.5 ft (4.1 m)
Installed power:	2,500 ihp (1,900 kW) 4,500 ihp (3,400 kW) forced draught
Propulsion:	Twin 2-cylinder compound steam engines Four boilers Twin screws
Speed:	17.5 kn (32.4 km/h)
Range:	7,000 nmi (13,000 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h)
Complement:	176 men
Armament:	Six 6-inch (152 mm) guns Eight 3-pounder (47 mm) QF guns Two machine guns One light gun One 14-inch (356 mm) torpedo tube Four torpedo carriages
Armour:	deck: .375 in (9.5 mm) Gunshields: 1 in (25 mm) Conning tower: 3 in (76 mm)

HMS Racoon, sometimes spelled HMS Raccoon, was an Archer-class torpedo cruiser of the Royal Navy. Racoon was laid down on 1 February 1886 and came into service on 1 March 1888. She served on the East Indies Station where, on 27 August 1896, she was involved in the bombardment of Sultan Khalid's palace during the 40 minute Anglo–Zanzibar War.

In early May 1901 Racoon returned to the United Kingdom, and was paid off at Sheerness on 6 July 1901.

She was decommissioned on 1 January 1905 and sold for scrap.

Patience, Kevin (1994), Zanzibar and the Shortest War in History, Bahrain: Kevin Patience, p. 23 

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