HMS Mutine (1900)

HMS Mutine was a Condor-class sloop of the Royal Navy. Mutine was launched on 1 March 1900. While being delivered from Birkenhead to Portsmouth an accident in Mutine's boiler rooms caused some loss of life and gave her a name as an unlucky ship before her career even began. She served on the China Station, then the Australia Station between December 1903 and February 1905 and later became a survey ship, surviving until 1932 as a Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve drill ship, the last of her class to be sold.

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

HMS Mutine at Hobart in 1904
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Mutine
BuilderLaird Brothers & Co, Birkenhead
Yard number635
Laid down1898
Launched1 March 1900
Fate
  • Survey ship 1907
  • Depot ship, Bermuda, 1917
  • RNVR drill ship 1925
  • Sold for scrap, 16 August 1932
General characteristics
Class and typeCondor-class sloop
Displacement980 tons
Length
  • 204 ft (62 m) oa
  • 180 ft (55 m) pp
Beam33 ft (10 m)
Draught11 ft 6 in (3.51 m)
Installed power1,400 hp (1,044 kW)
Propulsion
  • 4 × Belleville boilers
  • Three-cylinder vertical triple expansion steam engine
  • Twin screws
Sail planBarque-rigged, changed to barquentine-rigged, later removed
Speed13 kn (24 km/h) under power
Endurance3,000 nmi (5,600 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h)
Complement120-130
Armament
  • 6 × QF 4-inch (101.6 mm) 25-pdr guns
  • 4 × QF 3-pounder (47-mm) guns
ArmourProtective deck of 1 in (2.5 cm) to 1+1⁄2 in (3.8 cm) steel over machinery and boilers.
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