HMS Kingfisher (1879)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Kingfisher.

HMS Kingfisher
HMS Kingfisher
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Kingfisher
BuilderSheerness Royal Dockyard
CostHull £39,300, machinery £11,850[1]
Laid down23 September 1878
Launched16 December 1879
Commissioned17 August 1880
Fate
  • Training ship 1892
  • Renamed Lark
  • Renamed Cruizer 1893
  • Sold 1919[1]
General characteristics
Class and typeDoterel-class screw composite sloop[1]
Displacement1,130 tons[2]
Length170 ft (52 m)[2]
Beam36 ft (11 m)[2]
Draught15 ft 9 in (4.80 m)[1]
Installed power1,090 indicated horsepower
Propulsion
  • Two-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine
  • 3 × cylindrical boilers
  • 1 × 13 ft 1 in (3.99 m) screw
Sail planBarque rigged
Speed11.6 kn (21.5 km/h)[1]
Range1,480 nmi (2,740 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h)[1]
Complement140
Armament

HMS Kingfisher was a Doterel-class screw sloop of the Royal Navy. She was built at Sheerness Dockyard and launched on 16 December 1879. She conducted anti-slavery work in the East Indies in the late 1880s before being re-roled as a training cruiser, being renamed HMS Lark on 10 November 1892, and then HMS Cruizer[a] on 18 May 1893. She was sold in 1919.

  1. ^ a b c d e f Winfield (2004) p.292
  2. ^ a b c "Naval Sloops at battleships-cruisers.co.uk". Retrieved 30 August 2008.
  3. ^ Dittmar and Colledge 1972, p. 322.
  4. ^ "Harbour Service: CRUISER (Late LARK). Sailing Sloop". The Navy List: 418. March 1913.


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