HMS Reindeer (1883)
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HMS Racer, sister ship to HMS Reindeer
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| Class and type: | Mariner-class composite screw sloop |
| Name: | HMS Reindeer |
| Builder: | Devonport Dockyard |
| Cost: | Hull: £34,834, Machinery: £12,787 |
| Laid down: | 15 January 1883 |
| Launched: | 14 November 1883 |
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| 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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HMS Reindeer was a Royal Navy Mariner-class composite screw gunvessel of 8 guns.
Designed by Nathaniel Barnaby, the Royal Navy Director of Naval Construction, her hull was of composite construction; that is, iron keel, frames, stem and stern posts with wooden planking. She was fitted with a 2-cylinder horizontal compound expansion steam engine driving a single screw, produced by Hawthorn Leslie. She was rigged with three masts, with square rig on the fore- and main-masts, making her a barque-rigged vessel. Her keel was laid at Devonport Royal Dockyard on 15 January 1883 and she was launched on 14 November 1883. Her entire class were re-classified in November 1884 as sloops before they entered service.
She was converted to a boom defence vessel in 1904. During World War I, she collided with the Royal Navy stores carrier HMS Immingham in the Mediterranean Sea on 6 June 1915, sinking Immingham. She was lent to the Liverpool Salvage Association as a salvage vessel in 1917. Re-engined in 1918 by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company with a 2,100 horsepower (1,566 kW) engine, she was renamed Reindeer I and sold to the Halifax Shipyard Ltd as a salvage ship on 12 July 1924. She was abandoned at sea on 12 March 1932. Her 30 crew were rescued by the ocean liner Montcalm.
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