HMS Royalist (1883)

HMS Royalist anchored at Sydney c. 1890.
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Royalist
Builder	Devonport Dockyard
Cost	£52,134 (hull) £16,039 (machinery)[1]
Laid down	27 April 1881
Launched	7 March 1883
Commissioned	14 April 1886
Renamed	Colleen on 1 December 1913
Fate	Depot ship at Queenstown, Ireland from 1900 Transferred to the Irish Free State on 19 February 1923.
Irish Free State
Name	Colleen
Fate	Broken up in 1950
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Satellite-class sloop (corvette from 1884)
Displacement	1,420 tons
Length	200 ft (61 m) pp
Beam	38 ft (12 m)
Draught	15 ft 9 in (4.80 m)
Installed power	1,470 ihp (1,096 kW)
Propulsion	Single horizontal compound-expansion steam engine Single screw
Sail plan	Barque-rigged
Speed	13 kn (24 km/h)
Range	Approximately 6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h)
Complement	170–200
Armament	8 × BL 6-inch/100-pounder (81cwt) Mk II guns 1 × light gun 4 × machine guns
Armour	Internal steel deck over machinery and magazines

HMS Royalist was a Satellite-class composite screw sloop of the Royal Navy, built in 1883 and hulked as a depot ship in 1900. She was renamed Colleen in 1913, transferred to the Irish Free State in 1923 and broken up in 1950.