HMS Gannet (1878)

HMS Gannet is a Royal Navy Doterel-class screw sloop-of-war launched on 31 August 1878. It became a training ship in the Thames in 1903, and was then loaned as a training ship for boys in the Hamble from 1913. It was restored in 1987 and is now part of the UK's National Historic Fleet.

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Gannet.

HMS Gannet in its dock in Chatham, 2005
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Gannet
BuilderSheerness Royal Dockyard
CostHull £39,581, machinery £12,889
Laid down1877
Launched31 August 1878
Commissioned17 April 1879
Decommissioned16 March 1895
Fate
  • Training ship in 1903
  • Renamed President
  • Loaned as a training ship in 1913
  • Preserved at Chatham in 1987
General characteristics
Class and typeDoterel-class screw composite sloop
Displacement1,130 tons
Length170 ft 0 in (51.8 m) pp
Beam36 ft 0 in (11.0 m)
Draught15 ft 9 in (4.8 m)
Installed power1,107 ihp (825 kW)
Propulsion
  • Two-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine
  • 3 × cylindrical boilers
  • 1 × 13 ft (4.0 m) screw
Sail planShip-rigged originally and at present; barque-rigged in the middle of her career.
Speed11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph)
Range1,480 nmi (2,740 km; 1,700 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement140
Armament
  • 2 × 7-inch (90cwt) muzzle-loading rifled guns
  • 4 ×64-pound guns
  • 4 × machine guns
  • 1 × light gun
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