HMS Sparrow (1889)
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HMS Sparrow
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 Royal NavyUnited Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Sparrow |
| Builder: | Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock |
| Cost: | £39,000 |
| Yard number: | 261 |
| Laid down: | 1888 |
| Launched: | 26 September 1889 |
| Commissioned: | 13 May 1890 |
| Decommissioned: | 1904 |
 New Zealand GovernmentNZ
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| Name: | NZS Amokura |
| In service: | October 1906 |
| Out of service: | December 1921 |
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| General characteristics | |
| 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 Sparrow was a Redbreast-class gunboat launched in 1889, the sixth Royal Navy ship to bear the name. She became the New Zealand training ship NZS Amokura in 1906 and was sold in 1922.
The Redbreast class were designed by Sir William Henry White, the Royal Navy Director of Naval Construction in 1888.
Sparrow was launched on 26 September 1889 at Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock. Her triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine was built by the Greenock Foundry, and developed 1,200 indicated horsepower, sufficient to propel her at 13 kn (24 km/h) through her single screw. Her hull was of composite construction, that is, iron keel, frames, stem and stern posts with wooden planking. She was rigged as a barquentine.
Sparrow was sent to the East Indies Station, where she served in the Persian Gulf and then in South and East Africa, participating in the suppression of the slave trade in the Congo area. In 1891 she took part in land engagements against local inhabitants in support of the Anglo-French Boundary Commission. A landing party from Sparrow captured and destroyed the strongholds of Tambi and Toniatuba in 1892, in reprisal for attacks on tribes under British protection. On 27 August 1896 she played a part in the Anglo–Zanzibar War, whose duration of 40 minutes makes it the shortest war in history. Her first commission ended when she paid off at Sheerness on 19 January 1900, and was placed in the Dockyard Reserve.
She recommissioned for service on the Australia Station, and in May 1900 was based at Sydney, where regular visits to New Zealand formed part of her duties. Between 11 and 27 June 1901 she escorted the royal yacht Ophir around the New Zealand coast when the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George V and Queen Mary) visited the colony. She was laid up at Garden Island Naval Dockyard in 1904, and on 28 February 1905 she was taken over by the New Zealand Government.
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