HMS Circe (1892)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Circe
Builder	Sheerness Dockyard
Laid down	11 January 1890
Launched	14 June 1892
Completed	July 1893
Fate	Scrapped 1920
General characteristics
Class and type	Alarm-class torpedo gunboat
Displacement	810 long tons (820 t)
Length	230 ft 0 in (70.10 m) pp
Beam	27 ft 0 in (8.23 m)
Draught	8 ft 6 in (2.59 m)
Installed power	3,500 ihp (2,600 kW)
Propulsion	2× triple expansion steam engines; 2 shafts;
Speed	18.7 kn (21.5 mph; 34.6 km/h)
Complement	91
Armament	2 × 4.7 in (120 mm) QF guns; 4 × 3-pounder (47 mm ) guns; 1 × Gardiner machine gun; 5 × 14 inch torpedo tubes;

HMS Circe was a Alarm-class torpedo gunboat of the British Royal Navy. She was built by Sheerness Dockyard from 1890–1893. She was converted to a minesweeper in 1908–1909 and continued these duties during the First World War. Circe was sold for scrap in 1920.

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