HMS Goldfinch (1889)

HMS Goldfinch was a Redbreast-class gunboat of the Royal Navy, built at Sheerness Dockyard and launched on 18 May 1889.[2]

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

The gunboat HMS Goldfinch
History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Goldfinch
Builder: Sheerness Dockyard
Cost: £39,300[1]
Launched: 18 May 1889
Fate: Sold 14 May 1907 for breaking
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: Redbreast-class gunboat
Displacement: 805 tons
Length: 165 ft 0 in (50.3 m) pp
Beam: 31 ft 0 in (9.4 m)
Draught: 11 ft 0 in (3.35 m) min, 13 ft 9 in (4.19 m) max
Installed power: 1,200 ihp (890 kW)
Propulsion:
  • Triple expansion steam engine
  • 2 × boilers
  • Single screw
Sail plan: Barquentine-rigged
Speed: 13 kn (24 km/h)
Range: 2,500 nmi (4,600 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h)[1]
Complement: 76
Armament:
  • 6 × 4-inch/25-pounder QF guns
  • 2 × 3-pounder (47 mm) QF guns
  • 2 × machine guns

Service
Officers aboard Goldfinch at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, early 1900s

She commenced service on the Australia Station in March 1890.[2] She left the Australia Station in August 1899 and returned to England. She was converted into a survey vessel in January 1902,[2] and commissioned by Commander Frederick Charles Learmonth on 4 February 1902.[3][4] She left Sheerness for the Mediterranean later that month on surveying duties.[5] In October 1902 she left Malta for the West Coast of Africa.[6]

Fate

Goldfinch returned to Sheerness for refitting for continued service in 1906, but was found to be in poor condition and the sloop Mutine was refitted as a survey ship to replace her.[7] Goldfinch was sold on 14 May 1907 for breaking up.[2]

Citations
  1. Winfield (2004), pp.299-300
  2. Bastock, p.114.
  3. "Naval & Military Intelligence". The Times (36676). London. 28 January 1902. p. 3.
  4. "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36683). London. 5 February 1902. p. 10.
  5. "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36697). London. 21 February 1902. p. 9.
  6. "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36906). London. 23 October 1902. p. 5.
  7. "Naval Matters—Past and Prospective: Sheerness Dockyard". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 29. 1 November 1909. p. 115.
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