HMS Rapid (1883)
{{short description|Sloop of the Royal Navy}}
{{Other ships|HMS Rapid}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=HMS Rapid (1883) AWM 302249.jpeg |Ship caption=HMS Rapid anchored at Farm Cove, Sydney c. 1888. }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United Kingdom |Ship flag= File:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg |Ship name= HMS Rapid |Ship namesake= |Ship ordered= |Ship builder= Devonport Dockyard |Ship laid down=21 April 1881 |Ship launched= 21 March 1883 |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned=9 September 1884 |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship *Gibraltar based submarine depot ship in 1912 Ship renamed *Hart in 1916 |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship homeport= |Ship motto= |Ship nickname= |Ship honours= |Ship fate=*Hulked in 1906
|Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class=Satellite-class sloop |Ship displacement=1,420 tons |Ship tons burthen= |Ship length={{convert|200|ft|m|abbr=on}} pp |Ship beam={{convert|38|ft|m|abbr=on}} |Ship draught={{convert|15|ft|9|in|m|abbr=on}} |Ship draft= |Ship power={{convert|1470|ihp|0|lk=in|abbr=on}} |Ship propulsion=* Single horizontal compound-expansion steam engine |Ship sail plan=Barque-rigged |Ship speed= |Ship range=Approximately {{convert|6000|nmi|km|abbr=on}} at {{convert|10|kn|km/h|abbr=on}}Winfield (2004) p.293 |Ship endurance= |Ship complement=170–200 |Ship armament=* Eight BL 6-inch/100-pounder (81cwt) Mk II guns
|Ship armour=Internal steel deck over machinery and magazines |Ship armor= |Ship aircraft= |Ship motto= |Ship nickname= |Ship honours= |Ship notes= }} |
HMS Rapid was a Satellite-class composite screw sloop of the Royal Navy, built at Devonport Dockyard and launched on 21 March 1883.Bastock 1988, p. 110. She was later reclassified as a corvette.
Initially on service with the Cape of Good Hope and West Africa Station, Rapid commenced service on the Australia Station in 1886. She was recommissioned three times in Sydney before leaving the Australia Station on 1 December 1897. In March 1902, it was announced that she would be sold out of service owing to defects in her machinery.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence|date=10 March 1902 |page=6 |issue=36711}} Six months later, she was instead posted to Gibraltar where she arrived for dockyard work in September 1902.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=25 September 1902 |page=8 |issue=36882}} Hulked in 1906, she was converted into a coal hulk in 1912 and was renamed C7. She became an accommodation ship in 1916 and was renamed Hart. She was sold at Gibraltar in 1948.
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References
- Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. {{ISBN|0-86777-348-0}}
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{{Satellite class sloop}}
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Category:Ships built in Plymouth, Devon
Category:Satellite-class sloops
Category:Victorian-era sloops of the United Kingdom
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