HMS Mariner (1884)
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HMS Mariner was the name-ship of the Royal Navy Mariner-class composite screw gunvessel of 8 guns.[1]
Construction
Designed by Nathaniel Barnaby,[2] 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 8 January 1883 and she was launched on 23 June 1884. Her entire class were re-classified in November 1884 as sloops before they entered service.[2]
Career
Mariner was commissioned into the Royal Navy on 19 March 1885. She became a boom defence vessel in 1903 and was lent to the Liverpool Salvage Association as a salvage vessel in 1917, with her sister-ship Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".. She was laid up from 1922 to 1929 and sold to Hughes Bolckow of Blyth on 19 March 1929.[2]
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