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Dolphin 1910s

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
PG24	Dolphin	236	John Roach, Chester	10.1883	12.4.1884	7.1884 (completed), 12.1885 (commissioned)	gunboat 7.1920, sold 2.1922

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1486
Displacement full, t
Length, m	78.2
Breadth, m	9.75
Draught, m	4.35 mean
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VC, 4 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	2255
Max speed, kts	16
Fuel, t	coal 265
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 152/30 Mk I, 2 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss Mk I, 4 x 5 - 37/20 Hotchkiss
Complement	152

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Project history

Authorized under the Act of 3.3.1883. The first ship of the 'New Navy' and usually classified as a despatch boat, Dolphin was originally given a light barque rig with no head gear, and was later rigged as a three-masted schooner, before reducing to two masts. Her 152mm gun was on an upper deck traversing mounting just abaft the foremast.

Modernizations

1911: - 1 x 1 - 152/30, 1 x 1 - 57/40, 4 x 5 - 47/23; + 2 x 1 - 102/40 Mk III/IV/V/VI, 6 x 1 - 47/45 Driggs-Schroeder Mk II

1914: - 2 x 1 - 102/40, 1 x 1 - 57/40

1921: - 6 x 1 - 47/45; + 1 x 1 - 102/50 Mk IX, 2 x 1 - 57/50 Mk IV

Naval service

For much of her career from 1899 Dolphin served as a despatch vessel for the secretary of the navy.