HMS Phaeton (1883)

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

Phaeton in harbour at Esquimalt, 1898
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Phaeton
Ordered1880[1]
BuilderNapier, Glasgow[2]
Laid down14 June 1880[2]
Launched27 February 1883[2][3]
Commissioned20 April 1886[2][4]
Decommissioned28 April 1903 (as sea-going warship)[5]
Out of service1913
RenamedTS Indefatigable 1913
Reinstated1941 as Carrick II
FateSold for breaking up 1947[2][3]
General characteristics
Class and typeLeander-class protected cruiser
Displacement4,300 tons (4,400 tonnes) load.[2][3]
Tons burthen3,750 tons (BOM)[6]
Length
Beam46 ft (14 m)[2][3]
Draught
  • 20 ft 8 in (6.30 m) aft, 19 ft 6 in (5.94 m) forward
  • with 950 tons (970 tonnes) of coal and complete with stores and provisions.[7]
PropulsionSails and screw. Two shafts. Two cylinder horizontal direct acting compound engines, 12 cylindrical boilers, 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW)[2][3]
Speed
  • 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) designed[2]
  • 17–18 knots (31–33 km/h; 20–21 mph) after funnels raised[2]
Range
  • 11,000 nmi (20,000 km; 13,000 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph).[2]
  • 725 tons coal normal, 1000 tons maximum = c. 6,000 nmi at economical speed.[8]
Complement(1885): 275[7][9]
Armament
Armour
  • 1.5 in (40 mm) steel armoured deck (with sloped sides) over 165 ft.[2][8]
  • 1.5 in (40 mm) gun shields.[2][8]
Notes
  • Carried 2 second class torpedo boats.[7]
  • Carried 7 pdr and 9 pdr boat guns and field guns.[7]

HMS Phaeton was a second class cruiser of the Leander class which served with the Royal Navy. Paid off in 1903, she then did harbour service until 1913 at Devonport,[3] where she was used for training stokers and seamen. Sold in 1913 to a charitable institution that ran a training ship for boys based at Liverpool, she was renamed TS Indefatigable until repurchased by the Admiralty in 1941 and renamed Carrick II, whereupon she served as an accommodation hulk at Gourock throughout World War II.[3][10] In 1946 she was sold to shipbreakers Thos. W. Ward in Preston and broken up in 1947.[3][10]

  1. ^ Lyon & Winfield The Sail and Steam Navy List, All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889 pages 270–271
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905, page 75.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i www.worldnavalships.com Leander class
  4. ^ The Phaeton's first logbook covers 20 April 1886 to 2 November 1887, and is UK National Archives catalogue reference ADM 53/14963
  5. ^ The Phaeton's final logbook covers 25 March 1902 to 28 April 1903, and is UK National Archives catalogue reference ADM 53/24832
  6. ^ Navy List, December 1884, page 230.
  7. ^ a b c d e Log of HMS Leander 29 May 1885 – 22 May 1886, UK National Archives file ADM 53/14282
  8. ^ a b c Jane, All the World's Fighting Ships, 1900, page 102.
  9. ^ Conway's lists her complement as 278, which appears to be an error. See Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905, page 75.
  10. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference TSIndefatigable was invoked but never defined (see the help page).