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HMS Foxhound |
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HMS Foxhound Laid Down : Launched : 29th January 1877 Completed : 13th April 1877 Type : Gunboat Class : Builder : Vickers Maxim Country : UK Pennants : Fate : Transferred to Coastguard in 1886; became a coal tug in 1897 and renamed YC 20. Sold as the hulk Arabel in 1920 and broken up in 1975. |
| Yard No.33 Sponsor Miss Egerton 455 ton displacement 125ft x 23.6ft x 12ft 10ft draught Steam engines by Hawthorn Leslie and Co. 40 tons of bunker coal carried Developed 470 IHP giving 9.6 knots on trials Armament two 64 pdr muzzle loaders and two 20pdr breach loaders plus two machine guns Engines cost £6550, hull cost £14,150 First Admiralty contract carried out at the Vickers, Sons and Maxim Yard Barrow-in Furness |
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3rd October 1891 - Passed The Lizard westbound | |||
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