HMS Serapis (1866)

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HMS Serapis
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Serapis
Ordered1865
BuilderThames Shipbuilding Co., Leamouth, London[1]
Yard number12F
Launched26 September 1866
Commissioned2 October 1876 at Portsmouth
FateSold 23 November 1894
General characteristics
Class and type
Euphrates-class troopship
TypeTroopship
Displacement6,211 tons[1]
Tons burthen4,206 tons BM
Length360 ft (109.7 m) (overall)
Beam49 ft 1.5 in (15.0 m)
Depth of hold22 ft 4 in (6.81 m)
Installed power
  • As built: 3,945 ihp (2,942 kW)
  • From 1869: 4,028 ihp (3,004 kW)[1]
Propulsion
  • As built:
  • 4-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine
  • Single screw
  • From 1869:
  • 2-cylinder single-expansion steam engine
  • Single screw
Sail planBarque
Speed14 kn (26 km/h)
ArmamentThree 4-pounder guns

HMS Serapis was a

Thames on 26 September 1866 from the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company at Leamouth, London and was the third Royal Navy
ship to bear the name. She was sold in 1894.

Design

Serapis was one of five iron-hulled vessels of the

ram bow
" which projected forward below the waterline.

Career

She spent all of her career on the United Kingdom to India route carrying troops, a trip that averaged 70 days. She was the only one of her class to have been completed with a compound-expansion steam engine at build, and was the first of her class to be re-engined. While her sisters replaced their single-expansion engines with compound-expansion engines, she had the opposite adaption; her 4-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine was replaced in 1869 with a 2-cylinder single-expansion steam engine.[1] The indicated power remained almost the same, and her top speed was largely unaffected, remaining at about 14 knots (26 km/h).[1]

On 12 March 1871, Serapis broke her main shaft. She was taken in tow by the British steamship Diomed. The tow was later transferred to

Empress of India. In 1884 the commanding officer, Captain Arthur Dupuis, was suspended after the ship grounded off Portland.[7] In April 1886 she became part of the Indian training squadron.[citation needed]. On 24 November, she ran aground at Southsea, Hampshire. She was on a voyage from Suez, Egypt to Portsmouth, Hampshire. She was refloated with assistance from two tugs and taken in to Portsmouth.[8]

Fate

She was sold to I Cohen on 23 November 1894 along with her sister ship Euphrates.[1]

Identification

All 5 Euphrates-class troopships could be identified by a different coloured hull band. Serapis had a green hull band. [9]

Citations

  1. ^
    OCLC 52620555
    .
  2. ^ "Latest Shipping Intelligence". The Times. No. 27014. London. 18 March 1871. col D, p. 11.
  3. ^ "Naval and Military Intelligence". Morning Post. No. 30853. London. 26 October 1872. p. 5.
  4. ^ "Naval and Military News". Hampshire Telegraph. No. 4197. Portsmouth. 4 November 1872.
  5. ^ "Indian News and Rumours". The Times. No. 27862. London. 2 December 1873. col F, p. 5.
  6. ^ "Collisions at Sea". Birmingham Daily Post. No. 4805. Birmingham. 8 December 1873.
  7. ^ "HMS Serapis at William Loney RN website". Retrieved 23 June 2009.
  8. ^ "Naval and Military Intelligence". The Times. No. 31926. London. 25 November 1886. col C, p. 7.
  9. ISBN 0907771432
    ), By: Richard Ellis & Lt. Cdr. Ben Warlaw

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