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Scout
History
United Kingdom
NameScout
Launched30 December 1856
Out of service1875
FateBroken up 6 March 1877
General characteristics
Class and typePearl-class corvette
Length200 ft (61 m)
PropulsionScrew
Armament21

HMS Scout was a Pearl-class corvette in service 1857–77.

HMS Scout, 1877(?)

Service

HMS Scout was a wooden screw corvette launched on 30 December 1856 at Woolwich Dockyard. She struck an uncharted rock in the Pacific Ocean on 12 August 1866. Repairs cost £1,087. A Court of Enquiry acquitted her commander.

In June 1874, captained by Ralph Cator, she sailed from Liverpool as part of a scientific expedition to Hawaiʻi. Carrying 93 tons of supplies, she journeyed via Valparaíso, Chile before reaching Honolulu Harbor in September of that year.

She was broken up in 1877.

References

  1. ^ "Mid-Victorian RN vessel HMS Scout". pdavis.nl. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  2. "Naval Disasters Since 1860". Hampshire Telegraph. No. 4250. Portsmouth. 10 May 1873.
  3. Chauvin 2004, 42-49.
  4. Airy, George Biddell, ed. 1881. Account of Observations of the Transit of Venus, 1874, December 8, Made under the Authority of the British Government: And of the Reduction of the Observations. N.p.: Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

Further reading

  • Chauvin, Michael. 2004. Hokuloa: The British 1874 Transit of Venus Expedition to Hawaii. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press. ISBN 1-581-78023-0. OCLC 52895592.

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