HMS Rover
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Class overview | |
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Name | HMS Rover |
Operators | Royal Navy |
Preceded by | Amethyst class |
Succeeded by | Emerald class |
Built | 1872–1874 |
In commission | 1874–89 |
Completed | 1 |
Scrapped | 1 |
History | |
United Kingdom | |
Builder | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, Leamouth, London |
Cost | £169,739 |
Laid down | 1872 |
Launched | 12 August 1874 |
Completed | 21 September 1875 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 1893 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Type | Iron screw corvette |
Displacement | 3,462 long tons (3,518 t) |
Length | 208 ft (63.4 m) pp |
Beam | 43 ft 6 in (13.3 m) |
Draught |
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Depth of hold | 23 ft (7.01 m) |
Installed power | 4,964 ihp (3,702 kW) |
Propulsion |
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Sail plan | Ship rig |
Speed |
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Range | 1,840 nmi (3,410 km; 2,120 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 315 |
Armament |
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HMS Rover was an 18-gun iron screw corvette built for the Royal Navy in the 1870s, the sole ship of her class. The ship was initially assigned to the North America and West Indies Station until she returned home in 1879. She was transferred to the Training Squadron when it formed in 1885. Rover was not really suitable for such a role and she was placed in reserve four years later and then sold for scrap in 1893.