For other ships of the same name, see HMS Arab.
| HMS Arab (1874) | |
|---|---|
| Career (UK) |  |
| Name: | HMS Arab |
| Ordered: | 1873 |
| Builder: | Robert Napier & Sons, Govan, Glasgow |
| Cost: | £28,433 |
| Yard number: | 333 |
| Laid down: | 1873 |
| Launched: | 13 October 1873 |
| Commissioned: | July 1875 |
| Decommissioned: | 1885 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 1889 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class & type: | Arab-class composite gunvessel |
| Displacement: | 720 long tons (730 t) |
| Length: | 150 ft 2 in (45.8 m) (p/p) |
| Beam: | 28 ft 6 in (8.7 m) |
| Draught: | 13 ft 6 in (4.1 m) |
| Depth: | 17 ft 6 in (5.3 m) |
| Installed power: | 656 ihp (489 kW) |
| Propulsion: |
1 shaft 1 × 2-cylinder horizontal compound expansion steam engine 3 × boilers |
| Sail plan: | Barque rig |
| Speed: | 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Range: | 790 nmi (1,460 km; 910 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 90 |
| Armament: |
1 × 7-inch rifled muzzle-loading gun 2 × 6.3-inch 64-pounder rifled muzzle-loading guns |
HMS Arab was a composite gunvessel built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1870s.
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Bibliography[]
- Ballard, G. A. (1942). "British Gunvessels of 1875: The Smaller Single-Screw Type". Cambridge, UK: Society for Nautical Research. pp. 308–13.
- Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
- Winfield, Rif; Lyon, David (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.
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