HMS Raven (1882)

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HMS Raven as a diving tender c.1910
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Raven
Ordered1880
BuilderSamuda Brothers, Poplar
Cost
  • Hull: £14,800
  • Machinery: £6,250
Launched18 May 1882
CommissionedApril 1883
FateSold March 1925
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeBanterer-class gunboat
Displacement465 tons
Length125 ft (38.1 m) pp
Beam23 ft 6 in (7.2 m)
Draught10 ft (3.0 m)
Installed power380 ihp (280 kW)
Propulsion
  • 2-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine
  • Single screw
Sail planBarquentine
Speed9+1⁄2 knots (17.6 km/h; 10.9 mph)
Range40 tons coal
Complement60
Armament
  • 2 × 6-inch/64-pdr (56 cwt) muzzle-loading rifles
  • 2 ×
    4-inch/20 pdr BL guns
  • 2 × machine guns

HMS Raven was a Banterer-class gunboat of the Royal Navy, built by Samuda Brothers of Poplar, London, and launched on 18 May 1882.[2] She served on the Australia Station and was converted to a diving tender in 1904. After being lent as a training ship in 1913 she was sold for breaking in 1925.

Design

The Banterer class was designed by

coppered, thus keeping marine growth under control, a problem that caused iron-hulled ships to be frequently docked. They were 125 feet (38 m) in length and displaced 465 tons. In appearance they were distinguishable from the preceding Foresters (also a Barnaby design) by their vertical stems.[1]

Propulsion

A two-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine by

kW) through a single screw, sufficient to drive Raven at 9.5 knots (17.6 km/h; 10.9 mph). The initial cost of the machinery was £6,250.[1]

Armament

Ships of the class were armed with two

4-inch 20-pounder breech loading guns. A pair of machine guns were also fitted.[1]

Construction

Raven was ordered from Samuda Brothers in 1880 and launched from their Poplar yard on 18 May 1882. The cost of building the hull was £14,800,[1] while fitting out was conducted by the naval dockyard at Sheerness. She was rigged with three masts, and photographs of sister ships show a square rig on the foremast only, making them barquentine-rigged vessels.

Service history

Raven commissioned at

Chatham 26 November 1901, when her crew was transferred to HMS Albacore which then replaced her at the Channel Islands.[4] She was converted to a diving tender in 1904[2] and was lent as a training ship in March 1913.[1]

Fate

A Banterer-class gunboat photographed as built

Raven was sold for breaking on 13 March 1925.[1]

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Winfield (2004) p. 298
  2. ^ a b c Bastock, p. 93.
  3. ^ "HMS Raven". Naval Database website. Retrieved 11 June 2012.
  4. ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36623. London. 27 November 1901. p. 6.

References

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