HMS Racoon (1887)

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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Racoon.

History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Racoon
Ordered1885[1]
BuilderDevonport Dockyard
Cost
  • Hull: £60,600
  • Machinery: £31,000[1]
Laid down1 February 1886
Launched6 May 1887
Commissioned1 March 1888
Decommissioned1 January 1905
FateSold to G Cohen on 4 April 1905[1]
General characteristics
Class and type
Archer-class torpedo cruiser
Displacement1770 tons
Length140 ft (43 m)
Beam36 ft (11 m)
Draught13.5 ft (4.1 m)
Installed power
  • 2,500 ihp (1,900 kW)
  • 4,500 ihp (3,400 kW) forced draught
Propulsion
  • Twin 2-cylinder compound steam engines
  • Four boilers
  • Twin screws
Speed17.5 kn (32.4 km/h)[1]
Range7,000 nmi (13,000 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h)
Complement176 men
Armament
  • Six
    6-inch (152 mm) guns
  • Eight
    3-pounder (47 mm) QF guns
  • Two machine guns
  • One light gun
  • One 14-inch (356 mm) torpedo tube
  • Four torpedo carriages[1]
Armour

HMS Racoon, sometimes spelled HMS Raccoon, was an

Anglo–Zanzibar War.[4]

Showing 33 slaves captured by the boats of the Racoon in 1901

In early May 1901 Racoon returned to the United Kingdom,[5] and was paid off at Sheerness on 6 July 1901.[6]

She was decommissioned on 1 January 1905 and sold for scrap.[2][7]

References

  1. ^
    OCLC 52620555
    .
  2. ^ a b HMS Racoon at Naval History
  3. ^ Patience 1994, p. 11.
  4. ^ Patience (1994)
  5. ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36437. London. 24 April 1901. p. 11.
  6. ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36501. London. 8 July 1901. p. 6.
  7. ^ Archer Class at Battleships-Cruisers

Bibliography

Patience, Kevin (1994), Zanzibar and the Shortest War in History, Bahrain: Kevin Patience, p. 23

External links

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