Cadmus-class sloop

	HMS Merlin at a buoy in grey wartime paint
Class overview
Name	Cadmus-class sloop
Builders	Sheerness Dockyard
Operators	Royal Navy; Royal Australian Navy;
Preceded by	Condor-class sloop
Succeeded by	Flower-class sloop
Cost	£80,796 (Clio); £76,657 (Cadmus);
Built	1900–1903
In commission	1900–1925
Completed	6
Retired	6
General characteristics
Type	Screw steel sloop
Displacement	1,070 long tons (1,087 t)
Length	210 ft (64 m) oa; 185 ft (56 m) pp;
Beam	33 ft (10.1 m)
Draught	11 ft 3 in (3.4 m)
Installed power	1,400 ihp (1,000 kW)
Propulsion	Three-cylinder vertical triple-expansion steam engine; Coal-fired Niclausse boilers; Twin screws;
Speed	13 kn (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Range	3,000 nmi (5,600 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h)
Complement	150
Armament	6 × QF 4 in (102 mm) guns; 4 × 3-pounder guns; 3 × machine guns;

The Cadmus class was a six-ship class of 10-gun screw steel sloops built at Sheerness Dockyard for the Royal Navy between 1900 and 1903. This was the last class of the Victorian Navy's multitude of sloops, gunvessels and gunboats to be constructed, and they followed the traditional pattern for 'colonial' small warships, with a full rig of sails. After them, the "Fisher Reforms" of the Navy ended the construction and deployment of this type of vessel. All of the class survived until the 1920s, remaining on colonial stations during World War I.

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