HMS Mutine (1880)
HMS Mutine was a Doterel-class sloop of the Royal Navy, built at the Devonport Dockyard and launched on 20 July 1880. She became a boom defence vessel at Southampton in 1899 and was renamed Azov in 1904. She was sold after World War I.
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| Name: | HMS Mutine |
| Builder: | Devonport Dockyard |
| Cost: | Hull £37,500, machinery £11,770[1] |
| Laid down: | 7 June 1879 |
| Launched: | 20 July 1880 |
| Commissioned: | 10 May 1881 |
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| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type: | Doterel-class sloop |
| Displacement: | 1,130 tons |
| Length: | 170 ft (52 m) pp |
| Beam: | 36 ft (11 m) |
| Draught: | 15 ft 9 in (4.80 m) |
| Installed power: | 1,120 ihp (840 kW) |
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| Sail plan: | Barque rigged |
| Speed: | 11.6 knots (21.5 km/h) |
| Range: | 1,480 nmi (2,740 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h) from 150 tons of coal |
| Complement: | 140–150 |
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Design
The Doterel class was designed by Nathaniel Barnaby as a development of William Henry White's 1874 Osprey-class sloop. The graceful clipper bow of the Ospreys was replaced by a vertical stem and the engines were more powerful. The hull was of composite construction, with wooden planks over an iron frame.[1]
Propulsion
Power was provided by three cylindrical boilers, which supplied steam at 60 pounds per square inch (410 kPa) to a two-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine driving a single 13-foot-1-inch (3.99 m) screw. This arrangement produced 1,020 indicated horsepower (760 kW) and a top speed of 11 knots (20 km/h).[1]
Armament
Ships of the class were armed with two 7-inch (90 cwt) muzzle-loading rifled guns on pivoting mounts, and four 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns (two on pivoting mounts, and two broadside). Four machine guns and one light gun completed the weaponry.[1]
Sail plan
All the ships of the class were provided with a barque rig,[1] that is, square-rigged foremast and mainmast, and fore-and-aft sails only on the mizzen mast.
Crew
Mutine would have had a normal complement of 140–150 men.[1]
Construction
Mutine was ordered from Devonport Dockyard and laid down on 7 June 1879. She was launched on 20 July 1880 and was commissioned on 10 May 1881[1] at Devonport.[2]
Service
Sloops of the 1880s and beyond were built to an outmoded design specifically to act as guardians of Britain's far-flung maritime empire; their sailing rig gave them enormous range, and their armament was more than sufficient for minor conflicts around the globe.[3] Mutine was assigned to the Pacific Station, including service in China.[2]
In 1904 Admiral John Fisher (amid great controversy) listed over 90 ships for disposal. Among those listed as "ships available for subsidiary purposes of war"[Note 1] was Mutine.[3] Converted to a boom defence vessel in 1899,[3] she and her sister Espiegle were assigned to the boom protecting Southampton Water.[4] Mutine was renamed Azov in March 1904 (Espiegle became Argo at the same time).[1] They worked throughout World War I in this role.
Notes
- "Ships available for subsidiary purposes of war" were the so called "llamas"; those for sale were the "goats" and those for disposal the "sheep"
References
- Winfield (2004) p.292
- "HMS Mutine at the Naval Database website". Retrieved 1 August 2011.
- Preston (2007) p.124
- "Navy List 1908 (Other Lists)". battleshipscruisers website. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
- Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6.
- Preston, Antony; Major, John (2007). Send a Gunboat: The Victorian Navy and Supremacy at Sea, 1854–1904 (2nd ed.). London: Conway. ISBN 978-0-85177-923-2.