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Career (United Kingdom)
Name:
HMS CanadaBuilder:
Portsmouth DockyardLaid down:
1879Launched:
26 August 1881Completed:
1881Fate:
Sold 1897
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General characteristics [1]Class & type:
Comus-class corvetteDisplacement:
2,380 long tons (2,420 t)Length:
225 ft (69 m)Beam:
44 ft 6 in (13.56 m)Draught:
19 ft 3 in (5.87 m)Installed power:
2,430 ihp (1,810 kW)Propulsion:
Horizontal Compound engine
1 shaftSail plan:
Barque-riggedSpeed:
13.0 knots (24.1 km/h; 15.0 mph)Armament:
- 2 × light guns
- 6 × machine guns
- 2 × torpedo carriages
}Armour: Deck: 1.5 in (38 mm) over engines |} HMS Canada was a Comus-class screw corvette of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1881 and sold for scrap in 1897.[2] Her bow badge was removed prior to being sold for scrap and is currently displayed in the Maritime Museum of British Columbia.[3]
Construction[]
Canada was laid down at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1879, one of nine ships of the Comus class. She was launched on 26 August 1881 and completed later that year.[4]
Service[]
Canada served on the North America and West Indies Station between 1883 and 1886. In 1892, she was refitted at Portsmouth, returning to the North America and West Indies Station between 1893 and 1896. She was paid off into reserve in December 1896.[5]
She was sold in 1897.[4]
Notes[]
- ↑ Chesneau and Kolesnik 1979, pp. 52–53.
- ↑ RMG
- ↑ McFarlane, John (2012). "The Bow Badge of HMS Canada". http://www.nauticapedia.ca/Gallery/Canada_HMS.php.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chesneau and Kolesnik 1979, p. 52
- ↑ "NMM, vessel ID 381774". Warship Histories, vol v. National Maritime Museum. http://www.rmg.co.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_v.pdf. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
References[]
- Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M. (1979). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-133-5.
The original article can be found at HMS Canada (1881) and the edit history here.