HMS Trent (1877)

Pembroke (ex-Trent) sometime after 1905
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Trent
NamesakeRiver Trent
BuilderPalmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co, Jarrow
Yard number345
Launched23 August 1877
Renamed
  • Pembroke in September 1905
  • Gannet in June 1917
FateSold to the Dover Shipbreaking Company on 21 February 1923
General characteristics
Class and typeMedina-class iron screw gunboat
Displacement
  • 386 tons (designed)
  • 363 tons (actual)[1]
Length110 ft 0 in (33.5 m)[1]
Beam34 ft 1 in (10.4 m)[1]
Draught9 ft 6 in (2.9 m)[1]
Depth of hold5 ft 6 in (1.7 m)[1]
Installed power
Propulsion
  • 2 × 2-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engines
  • Twin screws
Sail plan
Speed9+12 kn (17.6 km/h)
Complement51
Armament

HMS Trent was a Medina-class gunboat launched in 1877. She was the fifth ship of the Royal Navy to be named after the River Trent. She was renamed HMS Pembroke in 1905, and served off the coast of Tanganyika in 1915. She was renamed HMS Gannet in 1917 while serving as a diving tender. She was scrapped in 1923.

  1. ^ a b c d e Winfield (2004) p.281