HMS Pelican (1877)

Pelican docked at Bush’s Store, South Brooklyn, New York
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Pelican
Namesake	Pelican
Builder	Devonport Royal Dockyard
Cost	Hull £41,282, machinery £14,939
Laid down	8 March 1875
Launched	26 April 1877
Completed	29 November 1877
Decommissioned	1899
Fate	Sold to the Hudson's Bay Company, 22 January 1901; scuttled, 1953
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	1,056 ihp (787 kW)
Propulsion	1 × 2-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine 3 × cylindrical boilers 1 × screw
Sail plan	Barque rig
Speed	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 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 4 × machine guns 1 × light gun Later re-armed: 2 × 6-inch (81cwt) BL guns 6 × 5-inch (35cwt) BL guns 4 × machine guns 1 × light gun

HMS Pelican was an Osprey-class sloop built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1870s. She was launched in 1877 and was sold to the Hudson's Bay Company in 1901. She was scuttled in 1953.