HMS Halcyon (1894)

Halcyon
History
United Kingdom
Name	Halcyon
Builder	Devonport Dockyard
Laid down	2 January 1893[1]
Launched	6 April 1894
Commissioned	16 May 1895[1]
Fate	Sold for breaking on 6 November 1919
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Dryad-class torpedo gunboat
Displacement	1,070 tons
Length	262 ft 6 in (80.0 m)
Beam	30 ft 6 in (9.3 m)
Draught	13 ft (4.0 m)
Installed power	6,000 ihp (4,500 kW)
Propulsion	2 × 3-cylinder vertical triple-expansion steam engines Locomotive boilers Twin screws
Speed	19 kn (35 km/h)
Complement	120
Armament	2 × QF 4.7-inch (12 cm) guns 4 × 6-pounder 1 × Nordenfelt machine gun 5 × 18-inch torpedo tubes On conversion to a minesweeper in 1914 two torpedo tubes were removed

The third HMS Halcyon was a Dryad-class torpedo gunboat^[1] of the Royal Navy. Once described as "perhaps the smallest and least formidable vessel that ever crept into the 'Navy List'",^[2] she was launched in 1894 and was put up for sale before World War I. She was recommissioned in 1913, was converted to a minesweeper and served under the orders of the Admiral Commanding Coast Guard and Reserves. She was sold for breaking in 1919.