HMS Halcyon (1894)
Halcyon | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Halcyon |
| Builder | Devonport Dockyard |
| Laid down | 2 January 1893 |
| Launched | 6 April 1894 |
| Commissioned | 16 May 1895 |
| Fate | Sold for breaking on 6 November 1919 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Dryad-class torpedo gunboat |
| Displacement | 1,070 tons |
| Length | 262 ft 6 in (80.0 m) |
| Beam | 30 ft 6 in (9.3 m) |
| Draught | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
| Installed power | 6,000 ihp (4,500 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 19 kn (35 km/h) |
| Complement | 120 |
| Armament |
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The third HMS Halcyon was a Dryad-class torpedo gunboat of the Royal Navy. Once described as "perhaps the smallest and least formidable vessel that ever crept into the 'Navy List'", she was launched in 1894 and was put up for sale before World War I. She was recommissioned in 1913, was converted to a minesweeper and served under the orders of the Admiral Commanding Coast Guard and Reserves. She was sold for breaking in 1919.