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Name: | HMS Decoy |
Ordered: | 1871 |
Builder: | Pembroke Dockyard |
Launched: | 12 October 1871 |
Fate: | Sold in 1885 |
General characteristics | |
Class & type: | Ariel-class gunboat |
Displacement: | 430 tons |
Tons burthen: | 295 bm |
Length: | 125 ft 0 in (38.10 m) |
Beam: | 22 ft 6 in (6.86 m) |
Draught: | 10 ft 3 in (3.12 m) max |
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Propulsion: |
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Sail plan: | Three-masted barquentine rig |
Speed: | 9.5 kn (17.6 km/h) |
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HMS Decoy was an Ariel-class composite gunboat of the Royal Navy, built at Pembroke Dockyard and launched on 12 October 1871. She served in both the Third Anglo-Ashanti War in 1873 and the Bombardment of Alexandria in 1882. She rapidly became obsolete and was sold in 1885.
Design and construction[]
Designed by Sir Edward Reed, Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy, the Ariel-class gunboats were the first gunboats of composite construction. She was armed with two 6-inch (150 mm) 64-pounder (56cwt) muzzle-loading rifles and two 4-inch (100 mm) 20-pounder Armstrong breech loaders. All 4 guns were mounted on traversing carriages. All the ships of the class carried a three-masted barquentine rig.
Operational service[]
Decoy was deployed off the coast of West Africa to support the operations on the Gold Coast. She deployed with Druid and Argus.[1] She also took part in the bombardment of Bootry.
In 1882 she formed part of the Naval and Military forces at the Bombardment of Alexandria.[2] Argus, Isis, and Beacon blockaded Damietta.[3]
Fate[]
She was sold at Malta in 1885.
References[]
Publications[]
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
- "HMS Decoy at the Naval Database website". http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/D/01305.html. Retrieved 2017-05-01.
- Preston, Anthony; Major, John (2007). Send a Gunboat: The Victorian Navy and Supremacy at Sea, 1854–1904 (2nd ed.). London: Conway. ISBN 978-0-85177-923-2.
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