HMS Egeria (1873)

HMS Egeria in 1874
HMS Egeria
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Egeria
BuilderPembroke Royal Dockyard
CostHull £32,468, machinery £10,414[2]
Laid down30 December 1872
Launched1 November 1873[1]
CompletedNovember 1874
ReclassifiedAs survey ship, October 1886
FateSold, October 1911
General characteristics
Class and typeFantome-class sloop
Displacement949 long tons (964 t)
Tons burthen727 bm
Length160 ft (48.8 m) (p/p)
Beam31 ft 4 in (9.6 m)
Draught14 ft (4.3 m)
Depth15 ft 6 in (4.7 m)
Installed power1,011 ihp (754 kW)
Propulsion
Sail planBarque rig
Speed11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Range1,000 nmi (1,900 km; 1,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement125
Armament
Ships of the Royal Navy's Australia Station, moored in Farm Cove, Sydney, c.1880. Egeria is the left-most ship

HMS Egeria was a 4-gun screw sloop of the Fantome class launched at Pembroke on 1 November 1873. She was named after Egeria, a water nymph of Roman mythology, and was the second ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name. After a busy career in the East Indies, Pacific, Australia and Canada, she was sold for breaking in 1914 and was burnt at Burrard Inlet in British Columbia.

  1. ^ "Naval Sloops at battleships-cruisers.co.uk". Retrieved 30 August 2008.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference RW was invoked but never defined (see the help page).