HMS Vulcan (1889)

Vulcan as a torpedo depot ship
History
United Kingdom
Name	Vulcan
Builder	Portsmouth Dockyard
Launched	13 June 1889
General characteristics
Displacement	6820 tons
Length	350 ft (110 m) pp
Beam	58 ft (18 m)
Draught	23 ft 6 in (7.16 m)
Propulsion	Humphrys and Tennant. 12,000 IHP twin screw
Speed	20 kts
Complement	432
Armament	8 × 4.7 in 12 × 3 pdr 1 boat gun 16 × machine guns held on deck: 6 × 16-ton torpedo boats 2 × countermining launches 4 other steam boats
Armour	Steel deck, 2.5-5 in

HMS Vulcan was a British torpedo boat depot ship launched in 1889, later converted to a submarine tender in 1908-09.^[1] As a training hulk, she was renamed HMS Defiance III in 1931 and used for training at Torpoint, Cornwall. She was scrapped in Belgium in 1955.