HMS Inconstant (1868)
HMS Inconstant about 1885
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Class overview | |
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Succeeded by | HMS Shah |
Completed | 1 |
Scrapped | 1 |
History | |
United Kingdom | |
Name | Inconstant |
Builder | Pembroke Dockyard |
Laid down | 27 November 1866 |
Launched | 12 November 1868 |
Commissioned | 14 August 1869 |
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General characteristics | |
Type | Unarmored steam frigate |
Displacement | 5,782 long tons (5,875 t) |
Tons burthen | 4,066 bm |
Length | 337 ft 4 in (102.8 m) (p/p) |
Beam | 50 ft 4 in (15.3 m) |
Draught | 25 ft 6 in (7.8 m) |
Installed power | |
Propulsion | 1 shaft; 1 × trunk steam engine |
Sail plan | Ship rig |
Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
Range | 2,780 nmi (5,150 km; 3,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 600 |
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HMS Inconstant was an unarmored, iron-hulled,
Design and description
Inconstant was the first of an intended six fast, unarmoured, iron-hulled, frigates designed by the British Admiralty's
The ship had a single
Inconstant was
When completed the ship was more heavily armed than all but two of the twenty-four British ironclads afloat.
Construction and career
Inconstant, the fifth ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy,
She was recommissioned in 1880 and was commanded by Captain
The ship was reduced to reserve again after their return on 16 October 1882. She became an accommodation ship for the overflow from the barracks at Devonport in 1897.[2] Inconstant was taken out of service in 1904 and became a gunnery training ship in June 1906, assigned to the boy's training establishment Impregnable.[20] She was renamed Impregnable III in 1907, then Defiance IV in January 1922 after she was transferred to the torpedo training school at Plymouth, Defiance, and then Defiance II in December 1930. The ship was sold for scrap in September 1955 and arrived at the breaker's yard in Belgium on 4 April 1956 for demolition, when she was the second-to-last Welsh-built naval vessel afloat.[2]
Footnotes
- ^ a b c d e Ballard, p. 44
- ^ a b c Phillips, p. 192
- ^ Gardiner, p. 89
- ^ a b c d Chesneau & Kolesnik, p. 47
- ^ a b c Winfield & Lyon, p. 265
- ^ Ballard, pp. 42–43
- ^ Phillips, p. 190
- ^ Ballard, pp. 44–45
- ^ Chesneau & Kolesnik, p. 6
- ^ Colledge, pp. 171–72
- ^ Phillips, p. 191
- ^ a b Davis, Peter. "Mid-Victorian RN vessel HMS Inconstant". www.pdavis.nl. William Loney RN - Background. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
- ^ a b Davis, Peter. "The Royal Navy Flying or Detached Squadrons, 1869-1882". www.pdavis.nl. William Loney RN - Background. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
- ^ Ballard, p. 46
- ^ Davis, Peter. "Biography of Richard James Meade R.N." www.pdavis.nl. William Loney RN - Background. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
- ^ Davis, Peter. "Biography of Francis William Sullivan R.N." www.pdavis.nl. William Loney RN - Background. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
- ^ Matthews, Rupert. I grandi fantasmi [The great phantoms] (in Italian). Translated by Bonacci, Marina. Milan: Editorial Del Drago. p. 22.
- ^ Colby, p. 44
- ^ Ballard, pp. 44, 47
- ^ Ballard, p. 47
References
- Ballard, George A.; Admiral (January 1934). "British Frigates of 1875: The Inconstant and Raleigh". Mariner's Mirror. XXII (1): 42–53.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Brown, David K. (2010). Warrior to Dreadnought: Warship Development 1860–1905. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78383-019-0.
- Colby, C. B. (1959). Strangely Enough, Sydney: Oak Tree Press ISBN 0-8069-3918-4
- Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
- ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1992). Steam, Steel and Shellfire: The Steam Warship 1815–1905. Conway's History of the Ship. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 1-55750-774-0.
- Parkes, Oscar (1990). British Battleships (reprint of the 1957 ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-075-4.
- Phillips, Lawrie; Lieutenant Commander (2014). Pembroke Dockyard and the Old Navy: A Bicentennial History. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7509-5214-9.)
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - 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.