HMS Flying Fish (1873)

HMS Flying Fish
History
United Kingdom
Name	Flying Fish
Namesake	Flying Fish
Builder	Chatham Dockyard
Laid down	1872
Launched	27 November 1873
Completed	June 1874
Decommissioned	1886
Renamed	From Daring, 14 January 1873
Reclassified	As survey ship, 1878
Fate	Sold for scrap, December 1888
General characteristics
Class and type	Fantome-class sloop
Displacement	949 long tons (964 t)
Tons burthen	727 bm
Length	160 ft (48.8 m) (p/p)
Beam	31 ft 4 in (9.6 m)
Draught	14 ft (4.3 m)
Depth	15 ft 6 in (4.7 m)
Installed power	3 × cylindrical boilers 836 ihp (623 kW)
Propulsion	1 shaft; 1 × 2-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine
Sail plan	Barque rig
Speed	10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Range	1,000 nmi (1,900 km; 1,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	125
Armament	2 × 7-inch rifled muzzle-loading guns 2 × 6.3-inch 64-pounder rifled muzzle-loading guns

HMS Flying Fish was a Fantome-class sloop of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham Dockyard and launched on 27 November 1873.^[1] Originally intended to be named Daring, she was renamed Flying Fish before launch on 14 January 1873.