HMS Cormorant (1877)

HMS Cormorant c. 1878
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Cormorant
Builder	Chatham Royal Dockyard
Cost	Hull £37,630, machinery £11,587[1]
Laid down	1875
Launched	12 September 1877
Commissioned	2 July 1878
Decommissioned	Hulked, November 1889
Renamed	Rooke, July 1946
Fate	Broken up at Málaga in 1949[1]
General characteristics
Class and type	Osprey-class screw composite sloop
Displacement	1,130 long tons (1,150 t)
Length	170 ft (51.8 m) (p/p)
Beam	36 ft (11.0 m)
Draught	15 ft 9 in (4.8 m)
Depth	19 ft 6 in (5.9 m)
Installed power	951 ihp (709 kW)
Propulsion	1 shaft 1 × 2-cylinder horizontal compound expansion steam engine 3 × cylindrical boilers
Sail plan	Barque rig
Speed	11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Range	1,480 nmi (2,740 km; 1,700 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	140
Armament	2 × 7-inch rifled muzzle-loading guns 4 × 6.3-inch 64-pounder rifled muzzle-loading guns

HMS Cormorant was an Osprey-class sloop launched at Chatham on 12 September 1877 and later the receiving ship at Gibraltar. She was renamed Rooke in 1946 and broken up in 1949.