HMS Champion (1878)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Champion
Builder	J. Elder & Co., Glasgow
Laid down	17 August 1876
Launched	1 July 1878
Commissioned	7 December 1880
Fate	Scrapped in 1919
General characteristics
Class and type	Comus-class corvette
Displacement	2,380 long tons
Length	225 ft (69 m)
Beam	44.6 ft (14 m)
Draught	16 ft 9 in (5 m) forward 19 ft 10 in (6 m) aft
Propulsion	2 engines of 2,590 ihp driving single screw
Speed	13 kt
Range	3840 miles @ 10 knots
Complement	265
Armament	As built:[1] 2 × 7-inch muzzle-loading rifles 4 × BL 6-inch 80-pounder guns 8 × 64-pdr muzzle-loading rifles 2 × light guns 8 × QF Nordenfelt guns 2 × torpedo carriages

HMS Champion was one of nine Comus-class corvettes of the Royal Navy, built in the late 1870s and early 1880s to a design by Nathaniel Barnaby. Champion was one of three in the class built by J. Elder & Co., Govan, Scotland and was launched on 1 July 1878.^[2] She was the third vessel under this name in the Royal Navy.