&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:HMS_Harrier_(1881)_wreck_(cropped).jpg) Wreck of Harrier[1]
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| History | |
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| Name | Harrier |
| Builder | Cowes, Isle of Wight |
| Launched | 1872 |
| Fate | Wrecked July 1891 |
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| Name | HMS Harrier |
| Acquired | 15 March 1881 |
| Fate | Sold April 1888 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | schooner |
HMS Harrier was a schooner of the Royal Navy. Built at Cowes, Isle of Wight and launched in 1872.[2] She was bought by the Royal Navy for £2874 and named HMS Harrier.[3]
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Initially in use for policing the East Africa slave trade, she commenced service on the Australia Station in September 1883.[2] Undertaking some survey work, she was paid off in 1888 and she was sold in Sydney to the London Missionary Society for £1200.[2]
Harrier was wrecked upon F Reef, Great Barrier Reef, near Cooktown in July 1891.[4]
- ^ Saville-Kent, William (1893). The Great Barrier Reef of Australia. London: W. H. Allen. p. xxx.
- ^ a b c Bastock, p. 96.
- ^ "HMS Harrier". Flickr. N/A. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
- ^ "Wreck of the Mission Schooner Harrier, The Argus (Melbourne, Victoria), Wednesday 29 July 1891, p. 7". Retrieved 4 October 2010.