HMS Boomerang (1889)

HMS Boomerang was an Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboat of the Royal Navy, originally named HMS Whiting, built by Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick, Tyne and Wear and launched on 24 July 1889.[3] Renamed Boomerang on 2 April 1890, she formed part of the Auxiliary Squadron of the Australia Station.

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Whiting.

HMS Boomerang anchored at Sydney in c. 1891–1905.
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Whiting
Builder:	Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick, Tyne and Wear[1]
Yard number:	545
Laid down:	17 August 1888
Launched:	24 July 1889
Completed:	14 February 1891
Renamed:	HMS Boomerang - 2 April 1890
Fate:	sold 11 July 1905 at Portsmouth, Hampshire.
General characteristics
Type:	Torpedo gunboat
Displacement:	735 tons
Length:	242 ft (74 m)
Beam:	27 ft (8.2 m)
Draught:	8 ft 6 in (2.59 m)
Installed power:	3,600 ihp (2,700 kW)
Propulsion:	Twin triple-expansion steam engines Locomotive boilers Twin screws (later re-boilered with water-tube boilers)
Speed:	19 kn (35 km/h)
Complement:	91
Armament:	Five 14-inch (360 mm) torpedo tubes (3 reloads) Two QF 4.7-inch (12 cm) guns Four 3-pounder guns[2]

Service details

Boomerang arrived in Sydney with the squadron on 5 September 1891. Lieutenant and commander Edward Matthew Hale was appointed in command on 15 February 1900.[4]

She left the Australia Station on 22 August 1904. She was sold for £1900 in July 1905 at Portsmouth.[3]

Notes

1. "HMS Boomerang (1891)". www.tynebuiltships.co.uk. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
2. Winfield (2004) p.305
3. Bastock 1988, p.105.
4. "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36052). London. 30 January 1900. p. 11.

References

• Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 0-86777-348-0
• Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6.

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