HMS Torch (1894)
HMS Torch c. 1900. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Torch |
| Builder | Sheerness Dockyard |
| Laid down | 18 December 1893 |
| Launched | 28 December 1894 |
| Commissioned | October 1895 |
| Fate | Transferred to New Zealand government on 16 August 1917 |
| New Zealand | |
| Name | HMS Firebrand |
| Fate | Sold in July 1920 |
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Rama |
| Fate | Wrecked on 17 November 1924 near the Chatham Islands. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Alert-class sloop |
| Type | Screw steel sloop |
| Displacement | 960 tons |
| Length | 180 ft (55 m) |
| Beam | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
| Draught | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
| Installed power | 1,400 hp (1,044 kW) |
| Propulsion | Three-cylinder vertical triple expansion steam engine; single screw |
| Sail plan |
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| Complement | 107 |
| Armament |
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| Armour | Protective deck of 1 in (2.5 cm) to 1.5 in (3.8 cm) steel over machinery and boilers. |
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HMS Torch was an Alert-class sloop of the Royal Navy, built at Sheerness Dockyard and launched in 1894. She served in Australia and New Zealand and was transferred to New Zealand as a training ship in 1917, being renamed HMS Firebrand at the same time. She was sold in 1920 and converted to a refrigerated ship with the new name Rama. She ran aground in the Chatham Islands in 1924 and was abandoned.