HMS Fantome (1873)

HMS Fantome was the lead ship of the Fantome-class sloops built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1870s.

Fantome
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Fantome
Builder:	Chatham Royal Dockyard
Laid down:	1872
Launched:	26 March 1873
Completed:	December 1873
Decommissioned:	1886
Fate:	Sold for scrap, February 1889
General characteristics
Class and type:	Fantome-class sloop
Displacement:	949 long tons (964 t)
Tons burthen:	727 bm
Length:	160 ft (48.8 m) (p/p)
Beam:	31 ft 4 in (9.6 m)
Draught:	14 ft (4.3 m)
Depth:	15 ft 6 in (4.7 m)
Installed power:	975 ihp (727 kW)
Propulsion:	1 shaft 1 × 2-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine 3 × cylindrical boilers
Sail plan:	Barque rig
Speed:	11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Range:	1,000 nmi (1,900 km; 1,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	125
Armament:	2 × 7-inch rifled muzzle-loading guns 2 × 6.3-inch 64-pounder rifled muzzle-loading guns

HMS Opal and HMS Fantome

Bibliography

• Ballard, G. A. (1939). "British Sloops of 1875: The Smaller Composite Type". Mariner's Mirror. Cambridge, UK: Society for Nautical Research. 25 (April): 151–61.
• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
• Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
• Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6.