HMS Boomerang was an Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboat of the Royal Navy, originally named HMS Whiting, built by Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick, Tyne and Wear and launched on 24 July 1889.[3] Renamed Boomerang on 2 April 1890, she formed part of the Auxiliary Squadron of the Australia Station.
Boomerang anchored at Sydney in c. 1891–1905.
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Whiting |
Builder | Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick, Tyne and Wear[1] |
Yard number | 545 |
Laid down | 17 August 1888 |
Launched | 24 July 1889 |
Completed | 14 February 1891 |
Renamed | HMS Boomerang – 2 April 1890 |
Fate | Sold 11 July 1905 at Portsmouth, Hampshire. |
General characteristics | |
Type | Torpedo gunboat |
Displacement | 735 tons |
Length | 242 ft (74 m) |
Beam | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
Draught | 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) |
Installed power | 3,600 ihp (2,700 kW) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 19 kn (35 km/h) |
Complement | 91 |
Armament |
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Service details
editBoomerang arrived in Sydney with the squadron on 5 September 1891. Lieutenant and commander Edward Matthew Hale was appointed in command on 15 February 1900.[4]
She left the Australia Station on 22 August 1904. She was sold for £1,900 in July 1905 at Portsmouth.[3]
Notes
editReferences
editWikimedia Commons has media related to HMS Boomerang (ship, 1889).
- Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 0-86777-348-0
- Brown, Les (2023). Royal Navy Torpedo Vessels. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-3990-2285-9.
- 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. OCLC 52620555.