HMS Cadmus (1903)
Sister ship Clio dressed overall at Tasmania in 1905
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Cadmus |
Builder | Sheerness Dockyard |
Cost | £76,657[1] |
Laid down | 11 March 1902 |
Launched | 29 April 1903 |
Commissioned | 1904 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 1 September 1921 |
General characteristics [2] | |
Class and type | Cadmus-class sloop |
Displacement | 1,070 long tons (1,087 t) |
Length | |
Beam | 33 ft (10.1 m) |
Draught | 11 ft 3 in (3.4 m) |
Installed power | 1,400 ihp (1,000 kW) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 13 kn (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
Range | 3,000 nmi (5,600 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h) |
Complement | 150 |
Armament |
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HMS Cadmus was a Cadmus-class sloop of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Sheerness in 1903, spent her entire career in the Far East and was sold at Hong Kong in 1921.
Design
Cadmus was constructed of copper-sheathed steel to a design by
Sail plan
As designed and built the class was fitted with a
Armament
The class was armed with six
Construction
Cadmus was laid down at Sheerness Dockyard on 11 March 1902,[5] and launched on 29 April 1903. She was commissioned in 1904[2] for the Far East.
Service history
Cadmus started her career on the Australia Station, where she arrived on 13 July 1904; her maiden voyage to Australia was accomplished in record time for a sloop. She was refitted at Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney in 1905.
In May 1905, she was ordered to follow Clio to the
Fate
She was sold at Hong Kong on 1 September 1921.[2]
References
- ^ "Hansard, 6 March 1905 vol 142 cc402-3, Questions in the House". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). 6 March 1905. Retrieved 7 September 2008.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Winfield (2004), p.279.
- ^ Fifty Years in the Royal Navy Archived 12 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Admiral Sir Percy Scott, Bt., John Murray, London, 1919, p.37
- ^ "Log of HMS Odin Thursday 6 April 1920". Old Weather. Retrieved 27 June 2011.
- ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36713. London. 12 March 1902. p. 7.
- ^ HMS Cadmus ordered to China The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 May 1905
- ISBN 0-87021-015-7.
- ^ "HMS Cadmus at Naval Database website". Retrieved 7 September 2008.
- Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 0-86777-348-0
- Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. OCLC 52620555.
- "Royal Navy Log Books: HMS Cadmus". Retrieved 15 December 2013. Transcription of ship's logbooks October 1913 to July 1920