HMS Reynard (1848)
The ship's company of Reynard on a raft, with the ship aground behind them near Pratas Island in 1851 | |
| History | |
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| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Reynard |
| Ordered |
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| Builder | Deptford dockyard |
| Cost |
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| Laid down | August 1847 |
| Launched | 21 March 1848 |
| Commissioned | 4 July 1848 |
| Fate | Wrecked 31 May 1851 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Screw sloop |
| Displacement | 656 tons |
| Tons burthen | 516 37/94 bm |
| Length |
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| Beam | 27 ft 10 in (8.5 m) maximum, 27 ft 6 in (8.4 m) for tonnage |
| Draught | 11 ft 6 in (3.5 m) mean |
| Depth of hold | 14 ft 6 in (4.4 m) |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 8.2 kn (15.2 km/h) under power |
| Complement | 100 |
| Armament |
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HMS Reynard was part of the 1847 Program, she was ordered on 25 April as a steam schooner from Deptford Dockyard with the name 'Plumper'. The vessel was reordered on 12 August as an 8-gun sloop as designed by John Edye. She was launched in 1848, conducted anti-piracy work in Chinese waters and was wrecked near Pratas Island in the South China Sea on 31 May 1851.
Reynard was the seventh named vessel (spelt Renard or Reynard) since it was introduced for a 18-gun sloop captured from the French in May 1780 by HMS Brune in the West Indies and broken in 1784.