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|Ship image=[[File:HMS Shearwater (1900) under sail.jpg|300px|HMS ''Shearwater'' under sail]] [[File:HMS Rinaldo with sailing rig removed.jpg|300px|HMS ''Rinaldo'' c. 1908 with sailing rig removed]]
|Ship caption=''Shearwater'' under sail (top)<br>''Rinaldo'' c. 1908 with sailing rig removed (bottom)
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{{Infobox ship class overview
|Name=''Condor''-class sloops
|Builders=*[[Sheerness Dockyard]]
*[[Laird Brothers]], [[Birkenhead]]
|Operators={{navy|United Kingdom}}
|Class before=
|Class after=
|Subclasses=
|Cost=
|Built range=1898–1900
|In service range=
|In commission range=1898–1932
|Total ships building=
|Total ships planned=
|Total ships completed=6
|Total ships cancelled=
|Total ships active=
|Total ships laid up=
|Total ships lost=1
|Total ships retired=5
|Total ships preserved=
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|Header caption=<ref name=RW/>
|Ship class=
|Ship type=Screw steel [[sloop-of-war|sloop]]
|Ship displacement=980 tons
|Ship length=*{{convert|204|ft|m|abbr=on}} [[length overall|oa]]
*{{convert|180|ft|m|abbr=on}} [[Length between perpendiculars|pp]]
|Ship beam={{convert|32|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}}<ref group=Note>The last four ships of the class were {{convert|33|ft|m|abbr=on}} in beam</ref>
|Ship draught={{convert|11|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}}
|Ship depth=
|Ship decks=
|Ship power={{convert|1400|hp|0|abbr=on}}
|Ship propulsion=*4 × Belleville boilers
*Three-cylinder vertical triple expansion steam engine
*Twin screws
|Ship sail plan=[[Barque]]-rigged, changed to [[barquentine]]-rigged, later removed
|Ship speed={{convert|13|kn|km/h|abbr=on|lk=in}} under power
|Ship range=
|Ship endurance={{convert|3000|nmi|km|abbr=on}} at {{convert|10|kn|km/h|abbr=on}}
|Ship complement=120-130
|Ship armament=*6 × [[QF 4-inch naval gun Mk I – III|QF {{convert|4|in|mm|adj=on|sigfig=4}} 25-pounder guns]]
*4 × [[QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss|QF 3-pounder (47-mm) guns]]
|Ship armour=Protective deck of {{convert|1|in|cm|abbr=on}} to {{convert|1+1/2|in|cm|abbr=on}} steel over machinery and boilers.
|Ship notes=
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[[File:HMS Mutine (1900) port bow view.jpg|thumb|right|''Mutine'' as built with barque-rig]]

The '''''Condor'' class''' was a six-ship [[ship class|class]] of 10-gun<ref name=RW/> screw steel [[sloop-of-war|sloop]]s<ref name=BC>{{cite web|url=http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/condor_class1.htm|title=''Condor'' class at battleships-cruisers.co.uk|accessdate=2008-08-30}}</ref> built for the [[Royal Navy]] between 1898 and 1900. ''Condor'' foundered in a gale, prompting the Royal Navy to abandon sailing rigs for its ships; all the others in the class survived into the 1920s. The last of the class, ''Mutine'', survived until 1932 as a Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve drill ship.

==Design==
The ''Condor'' class was constructed of steel to a design by [[William Henry White|William White]], the Royal Navy [[Director of Naval Construction]].<ref name=RW/> They were powered by a three-cylinder vertical triple expansion steam engine developing {{convert|1400|hp}} and driving twin screws.<ref name=RW>Winfield (2004), pp.278-279.</ref>

===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 [[Percy Scott|Admiral Percy Scott]] ascribes her sinking to the encumbrance of sails, and furthermore believed that her loss finally convinced the [[Admiralty (United Kingdom)|Admiralty]] to abandon sails entirely.<ref name=PB_Scott>''[http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/50_years/Ch_02.html#37 Fifty Years in the Royal Navy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212202938/http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/50_years/Ch_02.html#37 |date=12 February 2012 }}'', [[Percy Scott|Admiral Sir Percy Scott, Bt.]], John Murray, London, 1919, p.37</ref> 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 [[QF 4 inch naval gun Mk I – III|4-inch/25-pounder (1 ton) quick-firing breech loaders]] and four [[QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss|3-pounder quick-firing breech loaders]].<ref name=RW/>

==Operational lives==
The design of the ''Condor'' class differed from the screw sloops of the 1860s only in an evolutionary sense (although constructed of steel and armed with quick-loading guns, they retained the sails and layout of the earlier vessels); by the turn of the twentieth-century, they were thoroughly obsolete. The overseas [[List of Royal Navy stations|stations]] of the Royal Navy were responsible for patrolling the maritime [[British Empire]], and these ships were intended for that role. The rapidity with which they were converted to depot ships, training ships or survey ships gives testament to their outmoded design. According to ''Hansard'', it was stated by the [[Secretary to the Admiralty]] about the almost identical {{sclass|Cadmus|sloop|4}} in Parliament on 6 March 1905 that {{cquote|they were never designed for fighting purposes but for subsidiary work in peace or war, for which they are still available, and in which they are at the present moment engaged.|20px|20px|[[Ernest George Pretyman]]<ref name=hansard>{{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1905/mar/06/hms-clio-and-cadmus|work=[[Hansard|Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)]]|date=6 March 1905|title=''Hansard'', 6 March 1905 vol 142 cc402-3, Questions in the House|access-date=2008-09-07}}</ref>}}

===HMS ''Condor''===
{{main|HMS Condor (1898)}}
During her short career, ''Condor'' served on the [[Pacific Station]]. On 3 December 1901 while on passage from [[Esquimalt]] to [[Hawaii]] she foundered in a gale off [[Vancouver Island]] (position approximately {{coord|48|15|N|125|40|W}}). Her last contact was with the light station on [[Cape Flattery]]. All hands (130 ship's company and 10 supernumeries) were lost.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/ram/making_history_20030506.ram BBC Radio 4, ''Making Waves'', 6 May 2003 (RealPlayer required)]</ref> The tragedy occurred during her first commission and less than three years after her launch.<ref name=PB_Condor>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/C/01071.html|title=HMS ''Condor'' at Naval Database website|accessdate=2008-09-06}}</ref> In May 1949 the trawler ''Blanco'' hauled up wreckage from a depth of {{convert|250|ft|m|abbr=on}} The wreckage included a ship's [[binnacle]] matching that supplied to ''Condor''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://olympiccoast.noaa.gov/living/history_and_culture/shipwrecks/condor.html|title=NOAA Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary website|accessdate=2008-09-06}}</ref>

===HMS ''Rosario''===
''Rosario'' relieved {{HMS|Rattler|1886|6}} on the [[China Station]] in June 1900, and re-commissioned at [[Hong Kong]] on 5 November 1913, becoming a depot ship for submarines.<ref name=PB_Rosario>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/R/03988.html|title=HMS ''Rosario'' at Naval Database website|accessdate=2008-09-06}}</ref> In her role as a [[Submarine tender|submarine depot ship]] she supported a flotilla of three [[British C-class submarine|C-class submarines]], {{HMS|C36||2}}, {{HMS|C37||2}} and {{HMS|C38||2}}. These three submarines were built by Vickers, Barrow, commissioned on 1 February 1910 and sailed with HMS ''Rosario''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/H.M.S._Rosario_(1898)|title = H.M.S. Rosario (1898) - the Dreadnought Project}}</ref> to Hong Kong in February 1911. They were all sold in Hong Kong on 25 June 1919. HMS ''Rosario''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/H.M.S._Rosario_(1898)|title = H.M.S. Rosario (1898) - the Dreadnought Project}}</ref> was sold for scrap in Hong Kong on 11 December 1921. {{HMS|Titania}} and {{HMS|Ambrose|1903|6}} manned the [[China Station]] from 1920 on.

===HMS ''Mutine''===
{{main|HMS Mutine (1900)}}
While being delivered from [[Birkenhead]] to [[HMNB Portsmouth|Portsmouth]] an incident in ''Mutine''{{'}}s boiler rooms caused some loss of life and gave her a name as an unlucky ship before her career even began.<ref name=BC1>{{cite web|url=http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/condor_class.htm|title=''Condor'' class (additional page) at battleships-cruisers.co.uk|accessdate=2008-09-06}}</ref> She served on the [[China Station]] and became a survey ship, surviving until 1932 as a [[Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve]] drill ship, the last of her class to be sold.

===HMS ''Rinaldo''===
[[File:Sloop HMS Rinaldo - IWM Q 75450.jpg|thumb|Sloop HMS ''Rinaldo'']]
''Rinaldo'' served in Southeast Asia, including taking medical assistance to Brunei in August 1904 during an outbreak of smallpox.<ref>[http://www.usm.my/ijaps/articles/horton1.pdf ''Colonial Office Correspondence Relating To Brunei 'Destroyed Under Statute' 1906–1934'', by A V M Horton, IJAPS Vol. 1 2005]{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> By 1914 she was tender and training ship to {{HMS|Vivid|shore establishment 1890|6}}, [[HMNB Devonport|Devonport]] [[Royal Naval Reserve]].<ref name=PB_Rinaldo>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/R/03947.html|title=HMS ''Rinaldo'' at Naval Database website|accessdate=2008-09-06}}</ref>
She then saw service in West, South and East Africa until the end of WW1. She was sold for breaking in October 1921.

===HMS ''Shearwater''===
{{main|HMS Shearwater (1900)}}
''Shearwater'' served on the [[Pacific Station]]. She recommissioned on 27 November 1912 at [[Esquimalt]].<ref name=PB_Shearwater>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/S/04243.html|title=HMS ''Shearwater'' at Naval Database website|accessdate=2008-09-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060505101212/http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/S/04243.html|archive-date=5 May 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref> She was transferred to the [[Royal Canadian Navy]] as a submarine depot ship in 1915, sold to Western Shipping Co, Canada in May 1922 and renamed ''Vedas''.<ref name=RW/>

===HMS ''Vestal''===
''Vestal'' served on the [[China Station]], later becoming training ship and tender to {{HMS|Excellent|shore establishment|6}}, Portsmouth.<ref name=PB_Vestal>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/U/05007.html|title=HMS ''Vestal'' at Naval Database website|accessdate=2008-09-06}}</ref> She was sold for breaking on the same day as ''Rinaldo''.

== Ships ==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
!Name||Ship Builder|||Launched|||Fate
|-
|{{HMS|Condor|1898|2}}||[[Sheerness Dockyard]]||17 December 1898||Foundered in a gale off [[Cape Flattery]] on 3 December 1901<ref name=PB_Condor/>
|-
|{{HMS|Rosario|1898|2}}||Sheerness Dockyard||17 December 1898|| Depot ship for submarines at [[Hong Kong]] in 1910. Sold there on 11 December 1921<ref name=RW/>
|-
|{{HMS|Mutine|1900|2}}||[[Laird Brothers]], [[Birkenhead]]||1 March 1900||| Survey ship 1907, [[Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve|RNVR]] drill ship 1925, sold (for ship breaking?) to [[Thos. W. Ward]], [[Briton Ferry]] on 16 August 1932<ref name=RW/>
|-
|{{HMS|Rinaldo|1900|2}}||Laird Brothers, Birkenhead|||25 May 1900|| Sold to W Thomas, [[Anglesey]] on 21 October 1921<ref name=RW/>
|-
|{{HMS|Shearwater|1900|2}}||Sheerness Dockyard|||10 February 1900|| Transferred to [[Royal Canadian Navy]] as submarine depot ship in 1915, sold to Western Shipping Co, Canada in May 1922 and renamed ''Vedas''<ref name=RW/>
|-
|{{HMS|Vestal|1900|2}}||Sheerness Dockyard||10 February 1900|| Sold to W Thomas, Anglesey on 21 October 1921<ref name=RW/>
|}

==Notes==
{{reflist|group=Note}}

== Citations ==
{{Reflist}}

==References==
* {{winfield}}

==External links==
* {{Commons category-inline|Condor class sloop}}

{{Condor class sloop}}

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[[Category:Victorian-era sloops of the United Kingdom| Condor]]

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