HMS Royalist (1883)
HMS Royalist anchored at Sydney c. 1890. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Royalist |
| Builder | Devonport Dockyard |
| Cost |
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| Laid down | 27 April 1881 |
| Launched | 7 March 1883 |
| Commissioned | 14 April 1886 |
| Renamed | Colleen on 1 December 1913 |
| Fate |
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| Irish Free State | |
| Name | Colleen |
| Fate | Broken up in 1950 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Satellite-class sloop (corvette from 1884) |
| Displacement | 1,420 tons |
| Length | 200 ft (61 m) pp |
| Beam | 38 ft (12 m) |
| Draught | 15 ft 9 in (4.80 m) |
| Installed power | 1,470 ihp (1,096 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Sail plan | Barque-rigged |
| Speed | 13 kn (24 km/h) |
| Range | Approximately 6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h) |
| Complement | 170–200 |
| Armament |
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| Armour | Internal steel deck over machinery and magazines |
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HMS Royalist was a Satellite-class composite screw sloop of the Royal Navy, built in 1883 and hulked as a depot ship in 1900. She was renamed Colleen in 1913, transferred to the Irish Free State in 1923 and broken up in 1950.