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HMS Mutine (1900)

Sloop of the Royal Navy

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section1	{{Infobox ship/image
image	HMS Mutine Hobart 1904 AWM 302220.jpeg
image_caption	HMS Mutine at Hobart in 1904
section2	{{Infobox ship/career
country	United Kingdom
flag	[[File:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg	60px	Royal Navy Ensign]]
name	HMS Mutine
builder	Laird Brothers & Co, Birkenhead
yard_number	635
laid_down	1898
launched	1 March 1900
fate	*Survey ship 1907
section3	{{Infobox ship/characteristics
header_caption
class
displacement	980 tons
length	*204 ft oa
*{{convert	180	ft	m	abbr	on}} pp
beam	33 ftThe first ships of the class were 32 ft in beam, with the last four widened by 6 inches
draught	11 ft
power	1400 hp
propulsion	*4 × Belleville boilers
sail_plan	Barque-rigged, changed to barquentine-rigged, later removed
speed	13 kn under power
endurance	3000 nmi at 10 kn
complement	120-130
* 6 × [[QF 4 inch naval gun Mk I - III	QF {{convert	4	in	mm	adj	on	sigfig=4}} 25-pdr guns]]
armour	Protective deck of 1 in to 1+1/2 in steel over machinery and boilers.

Depot ship, Bermuda, 1917
RNVR drill ship 1925
Sold for scrap, 16 August 1932
180 ft pp
Three-cylinder vertical triple expansion steam engine
Twin screws
6 × QF 4 in 25-pdr guns
4 × QF 3-pounder (47-mm) guns '*HMS Mutine''' was a Condor-class sloop of the Royal Navy. Mutine was launched on 1 March 1900. While being delivered from Birkenhead to Portsmouth an accident in Mutine's boiler rooms caused some loss of life and gave her a name as an unlucky ship before her career even began. She served on the China Station, then the Australia Station between December 1903 and February 1905 and later became a survey ship, surviving until 1932 as a Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve drill ship, the last of her class to be sold.

Design

Mutine was constructed of steel to a design by William White, the Royal Navy Director of Naval Construction.

Sail plan

The class was originally designed and built with barque-rigged sails, although some pictures show ships of the class with a barquentine rig. Condor was lost in a gale during her first commission, and the contemporary gunnery pioneer Admiral Percy Scott ascribes her sinking to the encumbrance of sails, and furthermore believed that her loss finally convinced that Admiralty to abandon sails entirely. All other ships of the class had their sails removed during the first few years of the twentieth century.

Armament

The class was armed with six 4-inch/25-pounder (1 ton) quick-firing breech loaders and four 3-pounder quick-firing breech loaders.

Service

Mutine was launched at Birkenhead on 1 March 1900, and commissioned later the same year. After successful steam trials in the North Sea, she left Sheerness for China in mid December, arriving at Singapore 4 February, and at Hong Kong 27 March 1902. She served in the Far East between December 1903 and February 1905 and was converted to a survey ship in May 1907.

She was a depot ship in Bermuda from December 1917 and an RNVR drill ship from 1925.

Fate

Mutine was sold to Thos. W. Ward of Briton Ferry on 16 August 1932 and scrapped.

Citations

Notes

References

Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia.

References

"''Condor'' class at battleships-cruisers.co.uk".
"''Condor'' class (additional page) at battleships-cruisers.co.uk".
Bastock p.123
She was powered by a three-cylinder vertical triple expansion steam engine developing {{convert. 1400
''[http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/50_years/Ch_02.html#37 Fifty Years in the Royal Navy] {{Webarchive. link. (12 February 2012 '', [[Percy Scott). Admiral Sir Percy Scott, Bt.]], John Murray, London, 1919, p.37
(3 March 1900). "Naval & Military intelligence".
(12 December 1901). "Naval & Military intelligence".
(5 February 1902). "Naval & Military intelligence".
(31 March 1902). "Naval & Military intelligence".

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