HMS Mercury (1878)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Mercury.
HMS Mercury was one of two Iris-class despatch vessels, later redesignated as second class cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the 1870s. The two ships were the first all-steel warships in the Royal Navy.
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Mercury | |
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Mercury |
Builder | Pembroke Dockyard |
Laid down | 16 March 1876 |
Launched | 17 April 1878 |
Completed | September 1879 |
Reclassified |
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Fate | Sold for scrap, 9 July 1919 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Iris-class despatch vessel, later second-class cruiser |
Displacement | 3,730 long tons (3,790 t) |
Length | 315 ft (96 m) |
Beam | 46 ft (14 m) |
Draught | 20 ft 6 in (6.2 m) |
Installed power | 12 boilers; 6,000 ihp (4,500 kW) |
Propulsion | 2 × shafts; 2 × compound-expansion steam engines |
Sail plan | Barque-rigged |
Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
Range | 4,950 nmi (9,170 km; 5,700 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 275 |
Armament | 10 × 64 pdr rifled muzzle-loading (RML) guns |
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