HMS Melita (1888)
HMS Melita was a Royal Navy Mariner-class composite screw sloop of 8 guns, launched in 1888 and commissioned in 1892. She was the only significant Royal Navy warship ever to be built in Malta Dockyard, She was renamed HMS Ringdove in 1915 as a salvage vessel and in 1920 was sold to the Falmouth Docks Company, which changed her name to Ringdove's Aid. She was sold again in 1926 to the Liverpool & Glasgow Salvage Association, renamed Restorer, and finally broken up in 1937, 54 years after her keel was laid.
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| Name | HMS Melita |
| Namesake | Malta (Latin) |
| Builder | Malta Dockyard |
| Cost | £60,179 |
| Laid down | 18 July 1883 |
| Launched | 20 March 1888 |
| Commissioned | 27 October 1892 |
| Renamed | Ringdove in December 1915 |
| Reclassified | salvage vessel 1915 |
| Fate | Sold on 9 July 1920 to the Falmouth Docks Company |
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| Identification | Official Number: 137212 (from 1921) |
| Fate | Broken up in the second quarter of 1937 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Mariner-class composite screw sloop |
| Tonnage | 554 GRT, 214 NRT (from 1921) |
| Displacement | 970 tons |
| Length | 167 ft (51 m) |
| Beam | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
| Draught | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
| Installed power | 850 ihp (630 kW) |
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| Sail plan | Barque-rigged |
| Speed | 11+1⁄2 knots (21.3 km/h) |
| Range | Approximately 2,100 nmi (3,900 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h) |
| Complement | 126 |
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