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on 9 April 1883 and she was launched on 6 August 1884. Her entire class were re-classified in
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that divers removed to reach the gold. Her divers recovered 3,186 of the 3,211 gold bars.
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in 1917. Her derricks also raised many hundreds of tons of wreckage and sand from
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was commissioned into the Royal Navy on 9 April 1885. She served in
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in celebration of the
Diamond Jubilee on 26 June 1897.
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504:Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004).
843:Ships built in Plymouth, Devon
508:. London: Chatham Publishing.
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390:helped to retrieve 43 tons of
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352:Royal Naval College, Osborne
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158:14 ft (4.3 m)
150:32 ft (9.8 m)
142:167 ft (51 m)
126:General characteristics
16:Sloop of the Royal Navy
639:The Journal of Hygiene
438:was sold for scrap to
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180:2-cylinder horizontal
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604:(salvage vessel)"
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292:Nathaniel Barnaby
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113:9 April 1885
110:Commissioned
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365:In 1916–17
358:, in 1903,
833:1884 ships
827:Categories
538:"Cruisers"
450:References
274:Royal Navy
236:Complement
175:Propulsion
547:11 August
425:Laurentic
412:Laurentic
409:from HMS
407:gold bars
392:gold bars
383:Laurentic
332:Britannia
193:Sail plan
166:850
94:Laid down
21:HMS Racer
744:Reindeer
677:20474875
524:52620555
431:Disposal
401:was the
345:Spithead
286:Building
244:Armament
134:970 tons
102:Launched
788:Dolphin
737:Mariner
719:Mariner
668:2167577
659:3859567
354:, near
278:Mariner
215:⁄
199:-rigged
155:Draught
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46:History
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772:Melita
758:Icarus
725:sloops
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311:sloops
300:barque
280:-class
272:was a
197:Barque
139:Length
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765:Acorn
751:Racer
655:JSTOR
602:Racer
600:"HMS
568:Racer
566:"HMS
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417:mines
399:Racer
388:Racer
367:Racer
360:Racer
356:Cowes
322:Racer
269:Racer
228:Range
221:knots
204:Speed
70:Racer
39:Racer
673:PMID
620:2008
586:2008
549:2008
520:OCLC
510:ISBN
467:ISBN
380:HMS
330:HMS
267:HMS
249:8 ×
147:Beam
118:Fate
86:Cost
68:HMS
65:Name
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