HMS Trent (1877)

	Pembroke (ex-Trent) sometime after 1905
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Trent
Namesake	River Trent
Builder	Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co, Jarrow
Yard number	345
Launched	23 August 1877
Renamed	Pembroke in September 1905; Gannet in June 1917;
Fate	Sold to the Dover Shipbreaking Company on 21 February 1923
General characteristics
Class and type	Medina-class iron screw gunboat
Displacement	386 tons (designed); 363 tons (actual);
Length	110 ft 0 in (33.5 m)
Beam	34 ft 1 in (10.4 m)
Draught	9 ft 6 in (2.9 m)
Depth of hold	5 ft 6 in (1.7 m)
Installed power	60 nominal horsepower; 310 ihp (230 kW);
Propulsion	2 × 2-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engines; Twin screws;
Sail plan	Barquentine; (2 pole masts from 1892);
Speed	9+1⁄2 kn (17.6 km/h)
Complement	51
Armament	As built:; 3 × 6.3-inch (160-mm) 64-pdr muzzle-loading rifles; From 1892:; 2 × 4.7-inch quick-firing guns;

HMS Trent was a Medina-class gunboat launched in 1877. She was the fifth ship of the Royal Navy to be named after the River Trent. She was renamed HMS Pembroke in 1905, and served off the coast of Tanganyika in 1915. She was renamed HMS Gannet in 1917 while serving as a diving tender. She was scrapped in 1923.

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