Mariner-class gunvessel

HMS Racer
HMS Racer
Class overview
NameMariner-class gunvessels (later reclassified sloops)
Builders
Operators Royal Navy
Cost
  • Hull: £34,834
  • Machinery: £12,787
  • (Reindeer)
Built1883–1888[1]
In commission1883–1929
Completed6
General characteristics
TypeComposite screw gunvessel (rated as sloops from 1884)
Displacement970 tons
Length167 ft (51 m) pp
Beam32 ft (9.8 m)
Draught14 ft (4.3 m)[2]
Installed power850 ihp (630 kW)
Propulsion
  • 2-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine
  • Single screw[2]
Sail planBarque-rigged, except Icarus (barquentine-rigged)
Speed11+1⁄2 knots (21.3 km/h)
RangeApproximately 2,100 nmi (3,900 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h)[2]
Complement126
Armament

The Mariner class was a class of six 8-gun gunvessels (sloops from 1884) built for the Royal Navy between 1883 and 1888. Four were built in the Naval Dockard at Devonport, and two elsewhere; the Acorn was built by contract at Jacobs Pill on the Pembroke River (a private yard founded in the 1870s by Sir Edward Reed), while the Melita was built in the Malta Dockyard, the only substantial ship of the Royal Navy ever to be built in the island.

  1. ^ "Cruisers at battleships-cruisers website". Retrieved 11 August 2008.
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