HMS Shearwater (1900)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Shearwater.
HMS Shearwater was a Condor-class sloop launched in 1900. She served on the Pacific Station and in 1915 was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Shearwater, serving as a submarine depot ship until 1919. She was sold to the Western Shipping Company in May 1922 and renamed Vedas.
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HMS Shearwater at Esquimalt circa 1908. | |
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Shearwater |
Builder | HM Dockyard, Sheerness |
Laid down | 1 February 1899 |
Launched | 10 February 1900 |
Christened | Lady Bowden-Smith |
Commissioned | 1900[1] |
Fate | Transferred to Royal Canadian Navy, 1915 |
Canada | |
Name | HMCS Shearwater |
Acquired | 1915 |
Decommissioned | 13 June 1919 |
Fate | Sold in May 1922 |
Canada | |
Name | Vedas |
Operator | Western Shipping Company |
Acquired | May 1922 |
Fate | Scrapped 1937 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | Condor-class sloop |
Displacement | 980 tons |
Length | |
Beam | 33 ft (10 m)[Note 1] |
Draught | 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m) |
Installed power | 1,400 hp (1,044 kW) |
Propulsion |
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Sail plan | Barque-rigged, changed to barquentine-rigged, later removed |
Speed | 13 kn (24 km/h) under power |
Endurance | 3,000 nmi (5,600 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h) |
Complement | 120–130 |
Armament |
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Armour | Protective deck of 1 in (2.5 cm) to 1+1⁄2 in (3.8 cm) steel over machinery and boilers.[1] |
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