HMS Reynard (1848)
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=HMS Reynard (1848) wrecked on the Pratas Islands.jpg |Ship caption=The ship's company of Reynard on a raft, with the ship aground behind them near Pratas Island in 1851 }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United Kingdom |Ship flag=File:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg |Ship name=HMS Reynard |Ship ordered=*25 April 1847
|Ship builder=Deptford dockyard |Ship original cost=*£10,262 (hull)
|Ship laid down=August 1847 |Ship launched=21 March 1848 |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned=4 July 1848 |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship honours= |Ship captured= |Ship fate=Wrecked 31 May 1851 |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship type=Screw sloop |Ship tons burthen=516 37/94 bm |Ship displacement=656 tons |Ship length=*{{convert|147|ft|0|in|m|1|abbr=on}} gundeck
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HMS Reynard was part of the 1847 Program, she was ordered on 25 April as a steam schooner from Deptford Dockyard with the name 'Plumper'.Winfield The vessel was reordered on 12 August as an 8-gun sloop as designed by John Edye. She was launched in 1848, conducted anti-piracy work in Chinese waters and was wrecked near Pratas Island in the South China Sea on 31 May 1851.Lyon Winfield, page 213
Reynard was the seventh named vessel (spelt Renard or Reynard) since it was introduced for a 18-gun sloop captured from the French in May 1780 by HMS Brune in the West Indies and broken in 1784.Colledge
Construction
Reynard's keel was laid in August 1847 at Deptford Dockyard and launched on 21 March 1848. Her gundeck was {{convert|147|ft|0|in|m|1|abbr=on}} with her keel length reported for tonnage calculation of {{convert|128|ft|4.5|in|m|1|abbr=on}}. Her maximum breadth was {{convert|27|ft|10|in|m|1|abbr=on}} reported for tonnage was {{convert|27|ft|6|in|m|1|abbr=on}}. She had a depth of hold of 14 feet 6 inches {{convert|14|ft|6|in|m|1|abbr=on}}. Her builder's measure tonnage was 516 tons and displaced 656 tons. Her light draught forward was {{convert|10|ft|1.5|in|m|1|abbr=on}} and {{convert|11|ft|8|in|m|1|abbr=on}} aft.
Her machinery was supplied by George & John Rennie. She shipped two rectangular fire tube boilers. Her engine was a 2-cylinder horizontal single expansion (HSE) steam engine with cylinders of {{convert|28|in|mm|1|abbr=on}} in diameter with a {{convert|24|in|mm|1|abbr=on}} stroke, rated at 60 nominal horsepower (NHP). She had a single {{convert|8|ft|3|in|m|1|abbr=on}} screw propeller.
Her main armament consisted of two Blomefield 32-pounder 56 hundredweight (cwt) muzzle loading smooth bore (MLSB) {{convert|9|ft|6|in|m|1|abbr=on}} solid shot guns and six Blomefield (bored up from 18-pounders) 32-pounder 25 cwt MLSB 6-foot {{convert|6|ft|0|in|m|1|abbr=on}} solid shot guns on broadside trucks. The 56 cwt guns had a 6.41 inch bore whereas the 25 cwt guns had a bore of 6.3. Both fired a 32-pound solid shot.
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Commissioned Service
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She was commissioned on 4 July 1848 at Woolwich under Commander Peter Cracroft, RN for Particular ServiceThe Navy List, Item 487 with Sir Charles Napier's Western Squadron. On 15 September 1848, she ran aground at Cobh, County Cork. She was refloated.{{Cite news |title=Ireland |newspaper=The Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=16 September 1848 |issue=24619 }} Reynard took part in an abortive amphibious landing against Riff pirates in February 1849.[http://www.virginia.edu/colp/pdf/Piracy-and-Maritime-Crime-NWC-2010.pdf Piracy and Maritime Crime], Historical and Modern Case Studies, Naval War College Press, Newport, Rhode Island. Newport Paper 35, January 2010. {{ISBN|978-1-884733-65-9}}.
On leaving the Channel Fleet. she sailed for the East Indies, leaving Singapore in company with {{HMS|Cleopatra|1835|6}} for Labuan and China on 10 October 1849,{{cite web|url=http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/singfreepressa18491106.2.7.aspx |title=Shipping News |newspaper=The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser|publisher=Newspapers.nl.sg |date=6 November 1849|page=3 |access-date=2012-11-15}} and arriving in Hong Kong on 14 November. She served on the China Station in an anti-piracy role, recapturing two junks and apprehending 15 Chinese pirates on 23 March 1850.{{cite news|title=Expedition against pirates – the Reynard|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71626666|newspaper=South Australian |location=Adelaide |access-date=8 February 2014}} She left Hong Kong to return to Woolwich to pay off, but on her way was required to accompany the brig {{HMS|Pilot|1838|6}} to rescue the crew of the brig Velocipede, which had run aground on Pratas shoal, {{convert|abbr=off|170|miles|nmi km}} southeast of Hong Kong.{{cite web|url=http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=175|title=HMS Reynard|publisher=William Loney website|access-date=8 February 2014}}{{Cite news |title=The Navy |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=18 August 1851 |issue=8430 }}
Fate
In rescuing the crew of Velocipede, Reynard herself was wrecked near Pratas Island in the South China Sea on 31 May 1851. The whole crew survived the sinking. HMS Pilot rescued them and also the crew of Velocipede. Reynard could not be saved, and she was paid off as a total loss on 27 February 1852.
Notes
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References
- Lyon Winfield, The Sail & Steam Navy List, All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815 to 1889, by David Lyon & Rif Winfield, published by Chatham Publishing, London © 2004, {{ISBN|1-86176-032-9}}
- The Navy List, published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London
- Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail (1817 – 1863), by Rif Winfield, published by Seaforth Publishing, England © 2014, e{{ISBN|9781473837430}}, Chapter 12 Screw Sloops, Vessels ordered or reordered as steam screw sloops (from 1845), Reynard
- Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy, by J.J. Colledge, revised and updated by Lt Cdr Ben Warlow and Steve Bush, published by Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley, Great Britain, © 2020, e {{ISBN|978-1-5267-9328-7}} (EPUB), Section P (Plumper, Renard, Reynard)
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