HMS Shearwater (1900)
HMS Shearwater at Esquimalt circa 1908. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Shearwater |
| Builder | HM Dockyard, Sheerness |
| Laid down | 1 February 1899 |
| Launched | 10 February 1900 |
| Christened | Lady Bowden-Smith |
| Commissioned | 1900 |
| Fate | Transferred to Royal Canadian Navy, 1915 |
| Canada | |
| Name | HMCS Shearwater |
| Acquired | 1915 |
| Decommissioned | 13 June 1919 |
| Fate | Sold in May 1922 |
| Canada | |
| Name | Vedas |
| Operator | Western Shipping Company |
| Acquired | May 1922 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1937 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Condor-class sloop |
| Displacement | 980 tons |
| Length | |
| Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draught | 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m) |
| Installed power | 1,400 hp (1,044 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Sail plan | Barque-rigged, changed to barquentine-rigged, later removed |
| Speed | 13 kn (24 km/h) under power |
| Endurance | 3,000 nmi (5,600 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h) |
| Complement | 120–130 |
| Armament |
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| Armour | Protective deck of 1 in (2.5 cm) to 1+1⁄2 in (3.8 cm) steel over machinery and boilers. |
HMS Shearwater was a Condor-class sloop launched in 1900. She served on the Pacific Station and in 1915 was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Shearwater, serving as a submarine depot ship until 1919. She was sold to the Western Shipping Company in May 1922 and renamed Vedas.