Английская Википедия:HMS Espiegle (1880)

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HMS Espiegle was a Doterel-class sloop of the Royal Navy, built at the Devonport Dockyard and launched on 3 August 1880.[1]

Design

The Doterel class was designed by Nathaniel Barnaby as a development of William Henry White's 1874 Шаблон:Sclass. The graceful clipper bow of the Ospreys was replaced by a vertical stem and the engines were more powerful. The hull was of composite construction, with wooden planks over an iron frame.[2]

Propulsion

Power was provided by three cylindrical boilers, which supplied steam at Шаблон:Convert to a two-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine driving a single Шаблон:Convert screw. This arrangement produced Шаблон:Convert and a top speed of Шаблон:Convert.[2]

Armament

Ships of the class were armed with two 7-inch (90cwt) muzzle-loading rifled guns on pivoting mounts, and four 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns (two on pivoting mounts, and two broadside). Four machine guns and one light gun completed the weaponry.[2]

Sail plan

All the ships of the class were provided with a barque rig,[2] that is, square-rigged foremast and mainmast, and fore-and-aft sails only on the mizzen mast.

Crew

Espiegle would have had a normal complement of 140–150 men.[2]

Construction

Espiegle was ordered from Devonport Dockyard and laid down on 23 September 1879. She was launched on 3 August 1880 and was commissioned on 11 October 1881[2] at Devonport.[3]

Service

She commenced service on the Australia Station in November 1881.[1] She left the Australia Station in March 1885 and went to the China Station. She assisted during the Chilean Revolt in 1891. She was fitted out as a boom defence vessel in 1899 and stationed at Southampton; she was renamed Argo in 1902.[2]

Fate

She was sold to W. Thorpe for breaking on 25 August 1921.[2]

References

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  1. 1,0 1,1 Bastock, p.77.
  2. 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 2,4 2,5 2,6 2,7 Winfield (2004) p.292
  3. Шаблон:Cite web