HMS Torch (1894)
HMS Torch was an Alert-class sloop of the Royal Navy, built at Sheerness Dockyard and launched in 1894. She served in Australia and New Zealand and was transferred to New Zealand as a training ship in 1917, being renamed HMS Firebrand at the same time. She was sold in 1920 and converted to a refrigerated ship with the new name Rama. She ran aground in the Chatham Islands in 1924 and was abandoned.
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HMS Torch (1894)
HMS Torch was an Alert-class sloop of the Royal Navy, built at Sheerness Dockyard and launched in 1894. She served in Australia and New Zealand and was transferred to New Zealand as a training ship in 1917, being renamed HMS Firebrand at the same time. She was sold in 1920 and converted to a refrigerated ship with the new name Rama. She ran aground in the Chatham Islands in 1924 and was abandoned.
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HMS Torch was an Alert-class s ...... nds in 1924 and was abandoned.
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1893-12-18
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1894-12-28
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Sold in July 1920
Transferred to New Zealand government on 16 August 1917
Wrecked on 17 November 1924 near theChatham Islands.
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Ship armament
* 6 × BL guns
* 4 × 3-pound guns
* 3 × machine guns
Ship armour
Protective deck of to steel over machinery and boilers.
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Ship propulsion
Three-cylinder vertical triple expansion steam engine; single screw
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*As built:
*Barque rigged
*After about 1900:
*Barquentine rigged
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HMS Torch was an Alert-class s ...... nds in 1924 and was abandoned.
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HMS Torch (1894)
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HMS Firebrand
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HMS Torch
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Rama
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