HMS Gannet (1878)

HMS Gannet in its dock in Chatham, 2005
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Gannet
Builder	Sheerness Royal Dockyard
Cost	Hull £39,581, machinery £12,889[1]
Laid down	1877
Launched	31 August 1878
Commissioned	17 April 1879
Decommissioned	16 March 1895
Fate	Training ship in 1903 Renamed President Loaned as a training ship in 1913 Preserved at Chatham in 1987
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Doterel-class screw composite sloop
Displacement	1,130 tons
Length	170 ft 0 in (51.8 m) pp
Beam	36 ft 0 in (11.0 m)
Draught	15 ft 9 in (4.8 m)
Installed power	1,107 ihp (825 kW)
Propulsion	Two-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine 3 × cylindrical boilers 1 × 13 ft (4.0 m) screw
Sail plan	Ship-rigged originally and at present; barque-rigged in the middle of her career.
Speed	11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph)
Range	1,480 nmi (2,740 km; 1,700 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	140
Armament	2 × 7-inch (90cwt) muzzle-loading rifled guns 4 ×64-pound guns 4 × machine guns 1 × light gun

HMS Gannet is a Royal Navy Doterel-class screw sloop-of-war launched on 31 August 1878. It became a training ship in the Thames in 1903, and was then loaned as a training ship for boys in the Hamble from 1913. It was restored in 1987 and is now part of the UK's National Historic Fleet.