 HMVS Lonsdale
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| History | |
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| Name | HMVS Lonsdale |
| Operator | Victorian Naval Forces |
| Builder | John I. Thornycroft & Company, Chiswick |
 Australia | |
| Name | HMAS Lonsdale |
| Acquired | 1901 |
| Out of service | 1912 |
| Fate | Sunk on mud flats at Swan Island in 1912 after being stripped of machinery and equipment.[1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Second-class torpedo boat |
| Displacement | 12.5 tons |
| Length | 67 ft (20 m) |
| Draught | 3.25 ft (0.99 m) |
| Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) (max) |
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HMVS Lonsdale was a second-class torpedo boat constructed for the Victorian Naval Forces and later operated by the Commonwealth Naval Forces and the Royal Australian Navy. She was sunk on mud flats on Swan Island in Port Phillip Bay in 1912 after being stripped of equipment and machinery.[1] Having been commissioned in 1884, and then officially joining the Commonwealth Naval forces in 1901, the boat was the oldest ship in the Royal Navy, and is the oldest Royal Australian Navy ship still in existence (though currently buried).
- ^ a b "Sinking Torpedo Boats". The Argus (Melbourne, Victoria), Thursday 20 June 1912 p.10. 20 June 1912. Retrieved 30 March 2011.