Английская Википедия:HMS Icarus (1885)
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Шаблон:Infobox ship imageШаблон:Infobox ship careerШаблон:Infobox ship characteristicsHMS Icarus was a Шаблон:Sclass composite screw gunvessel of 8 guns,[1] and the third Royal Navy vessel to carry the name. She was launched in 1885 at Devonport and sold in 1904.
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 Barrow Iron Shipbuilding. Uniquely among her class she was built rigged with no main yards, making her a barquentine-rigged vessel; the rest of her class were barque-rigged. However, later pictures show her rigged as a barque. Her keel was laid at Devonport Royal Dockyard on 18 August 1883 and she was launched on 27 July 1885 by Miss Julia Wilson, the daughter of Admiral Superintendent Wilson; the launch was originally planned for 11 July but was postponed following the admiral's death on 4 July.[3] Her entire class were re-classified in November 1884 as sloops before they entered service.
Career
Icarus was commissioned on 6 July 1886 at Devonport.[4] On 8 October 1889, she ran aground in Plumper Sound whilst on a voyage from New Westminster to Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada.[5] After returning from the Pacific in 1890[4] she had additional quick firing (QF) guns added.[2]
The ship's companies of Icarus, Шаблон:HMS and Шаблон:HMS were awarded the West Africa Medal with the bar "1887–1888" for their part in supporting the infantry of the West India Regiment between 13 November 1887 and 2 January 1888 during the Yoni Expedition against the Yoni Chiefdom in Sierra Leone.[6]
In 1890 the levels of desertion and punishment under her commanding officer, Commander Annesley, was sufficiently high to prompt a question in the House of Commons. The reply by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord George Hamilton, reveals good reason for the concern, since Icarus only had a total complement of 126:
An inquiry concluded that Annesley had, as alleged in various newspapers, applied a "punishment not recognised in the Service", and was duly court martialled.[7] He was found guilty and awarded a public reprimand.[8]
Her last years were spent on the Pacific Station, based in Esquimalt Royal Navy Dockyard at Esquimalt, in British Columbia, Canada.[9] In early 1900 she visited San Francisco, under Commander George Francis Savage Knowling,[10] and in late Summer 1901 she visited Panama.[11] The following year she returned to the United Kingdom, stopping at Pernambuco and São Vicente, Cape Verde.[12] She arrived at Devonport on 10 May 1902,[13] and proceeded to Sheerness to pay off at Chatham on 4 June 1902, where she was placed in the C Division of the Dockyard reserve.[14]
Fate
Icarus was sold on 12 April 1904.[2]
Notes
References
External links
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