HMS Algerine (1895)

HMS Algerine at Esquimalt.
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Algerine
Builder	HM Dockyard, Devonport
Laid down	25 July 1894
Launched	6 June 1895
Commissioned	April 1896[1]
Decommissioned	8 September 1914
Fate	Transferred to Royal Canadian Navy, 1917
Canada
Name	HMCS Algerine
Acquired	1917
Fate	Sold on 11 April 1919 Wrecked in Principe Channel, British Columbia, 13 October 1923
General characteristics
Type	Phoenix-class sloop
Displacement	1,050 tons[2]
Length	185 ft (56 m) pp 210 ft 6 in (64.16 m)oa[1]
Beam	32 ft 6 in (9.91 m)[1]
Draught	13 ft 1 in (3.99 m)[1]
Installed power	1,400 ihp (1,000 kW)[1]
Propulsion	Three-cylinder vertical triple-expansion steam engine Twin screws
Sail plan	Barquentine rigged
Speed	13 kn (24 km/h)[1]
Armament	Six 4-inch/25-pounder (1-ton) QF guns[1] Four 3-pounder guns Three Maxim guns
Armour	Protective deck of 1 to 1+1⁄2 in (2.5 to 3.8 cm) steel over machinery and boilers

HMS Algerine was a Phoenix-class steel screw sloop of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Devonport in 1895, saw action in China during the Boxer Rebellion, and later served on the Pacific Station. She was stripped of her crew at Esquimalt in 1914, and transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1917, being commissioned as HMCS Algerine. She was sold as a salvage vessel in 1919 and wrecked in 1923.