HMS Raven (1882)

	HMS Raven as a diving tender c.1910
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Raven
Ordered	1880
Builder	Samuda Brothers, Poplar
Cost	Hull: £14,800; Machinery: £6,250;
Launched	18 May 1882
Commissioned	April 1883
Fate	Sold March 1925
General characteristics
Class and type	Banterer-class gunboat
Displacement	465 tons
Length	125 ft (38.1 m) pp
Beam	23 ft 6 in (7.2 m)
Draught	10 ft (3.0 m)
Installed power	380 ihp (280 kW)
Propulsion	2-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine; Single screw;
Sail plan	Barquentine
Speed	9+1⁄2 knots (17.6 km/h; 10.9 mph)
Range	40 tons coal
Complement	60
Armament	2 × 6-inch/64-pdr (56 cwt) muzzle-loading rifles; 2 × 4-inch/20 pdr BL guns; 2 × machine guns;

HMS Raven was a Banterer-class gunboat of the Royal Navy, built by Samuda Brothers of Poplar, London, and launched on 18 May 1882. She served on the Australia Station and was converted to a diving tender in 1904. After being lent as a training ship in 1913 she was sold for breaking in 1925.

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