HMS Crocodile (1867)
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HMS Crocodile was a Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". launched into the Thames from the Blackwall Yard of Money Wigram and Sons on 7 January 1867. She was the fourth and last vessel of the Royal Navy to carry the name.
Design
Crocodile was one of five iron-hulled vessels of the Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".. All five were built to a design of Script error: No such module "convert". overall length by about Script error: No such module "convert". breadth, although Malabar was very slightly smaller than the rest of the class. They had a single screw, a speed of Script error: No such module "convert"., one funnel, a barque-rig sail plan, three 4-pounder guns, and a white painted hull. Her bow was a "ram bow" which projected forward below the waterline.
Identification
The Euphrates-class troopships could each be identified by a different coloured hull band. CrocodileTemplate:'s hull band was yellow. The blue hull band of her sister Euphrates became the standard for all HM Troopships.[1]
Career
Crocodile was built for the transport of troops between the United Kingdom and the Indian sub-continent, and was operated by the Royal Navy. She carried up to 1,200 troops and family on a passage of approximately 70 days.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Between November 1866 and April 1870 she was commanded by Captain George Willes Watson.[2] On 27 November 1867, she collided with the Canadian merchant ship John Dwyer in the English Channel Script error: No such module "convert". off Start Point, Devon. John Dwyer sank with the loss of four of her crew. Crocodile rescued the survivors.[3]
Crocodile was re-engined rather later in life than her sisters, with her single-expansion steam engine replaced with a more efficient compound-expansion type.[Note 1]
In December 1888, Crocodile towed the Dutch steamship Sourabaja to Malta, the steamship having suffered an engine failure Script error: No such module "convert". off Cape Trafalgar, Spain.[4] CrocodileTemplate:'s last voyage began at Bombay in October 1893. On 3 November, as she was approaching Aden, the high-pressure steam cylinder exploded and the ship came to a halt. The next day she was towed to an anchorage near Aden.[5] Most of the soldiers and their families were brought home on other ships. Crocodile eventually arrived back at Portsmouth on 30 December 1893, having travelled using only the low-pressure steam cylinder, and was not further employed for trooping.[6]
Fate
Crocodile was sold for breaking on 11 May 1894.[7][8]
Notes
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- ↑ Winfield does not show a re-enginning of Crocodile. This is a misprint and the Errata should be consulted.
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References
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- ↑ The Royal Navy at Malta, Volume One: The Victorian Era - 1865-1906, page 51, by Richard Ellis & Lt. Cdr. Ben Warlaw RN - Template:ISBN
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- ↑ Birmingham Daily Post 29 November 1893
- ↑ The Times, London, 1 January 1894
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