HMS Gannet (1878)

HMS Gannet
HMS Gannet in its dock in Chatham, 2005
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Gannet
BuilderSheerness Royal Dockyard
CostHull £39,581, machinery £12,889[1]
Laid down1877
Launched31 August 1878
Commissioned17 April 1879
Decommissioned16 March 1895
Fate
  • Training ship in 1903
  • Renamed President
  • Loaned as a training ship in 1913
  • Preserved at Chatham in 1987
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeDoterel-class screw composite sloop
Displacement1,130 tons
Length170 ft 0 in (51.8 m) pp
Beam36 ft 0 in (11.0 m)
Draught15 ft 9 in (4.8 m)
Installed power1,107 ihp (825 kW)
Propulsion
  • Two-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine
  • 3 × cylindrical boilers
  • 1 × 13 ft (4.0 m) screw
Sail planShip-rigged originally and at present; barque-rigged in the middle of her career.
Speed11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph)
Range1,480 nmi (2,740 km; 1,700 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement140
Armament

HMS Gannet is a Royal Navy Doterel-class screw sloop-of-war launched on 31 August 1878. It became a training ship in the Thames in 1903, and was then loaned as a training ship for boys in the Hamble from 1913. It was restored in 1987 and is now part of the UK's National Historic Fleet.

  1. ^ a b Winfield (2004), p.292