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HMS Nymphe (1888)

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History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Nymphe
BuilderPortsmouth Dockyard.
Cost£42,400 (hull) & £15,200 (machinery)[1]
Laid down5 July 1887[1]
Launched1 May 1888[1]
Commissioned3 July 1889[1]
FateSold, February 1920[2]
General characteristics [3]
Displacement1,140 long tons (1,160 t)
Length195 ft (59.4 m)
Beam28 ft (8.5 m)
Draught12 ft 6 in (3.8 m)
Propulsion
Sail planSchooner-rigged
Speed14.5 kn (26.9 km/h; 16.7 mph)
Endurance3,000 nmi (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement138
Armament

HMS Nymphe was a Nymphe-class composite screw sloop and the fifth ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name. She was renamed HMS Wildfire in 1906, HMS Gannet in 1916, and finally HMS Pembroke in 1917,[1] before she was sold in 1920.[2]

Construction and service history

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Developed and constructed for the Royal Navy on a design by William Henry White, Director of Naval Construction, she was launched at Sheerness Dockyard on 1 May 1888.[2]

Commander Richard Bowles Farquhar was in command until 16 February 1900, when she paid off at Portsmouth for repairs.[5]

Fate

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From August 1914 she was a shore training ship at Sheerness, was later renamed Wildfire[6] and was sold to Ward of Milford Haven for breaking in February 1920.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Winfield (2004)
  2. ^ a b c "Naval Sloops at battleships-cruisers.co.uk". Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  3. ^ Chesneau and Kolesnik 1979, pp. 58.
  4. ^ Preston (2007) p.182
  5. ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36068. London. 17 February 1900. p. 11.
  6. ^ "HMS Nymphe at Naval Database website". Archived from the original on 10 August 2017. Retrieved 8 December 2017.

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