Name HMS Nimble Laid down 30 October 1859 Construction started 30 October 1859 Weight 579.1 tons Builder Pembroke Dock | Ordered 27 March 1858 Commissioned 8 April 1861 Launched 15 September 1860 Displacement 517,100 kg | |
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Fate Harbour service 1879
RNR training ship at Hull 1885
Sold to W R James on 10 July 1906 Length 145 ft (44.2 m) oa
127 ft 10.25 in (39.0 m) pp | ||
HMS Nimble was a wooden Philomel-class gunvessel of the Royal Navy. She was equipped with 5 guns. She became a drill ship for the Royal Naval Reserve at Hull in 1885 and was disposed of in 1906.
History
HMS Nimble was launched on 15 September 1860 from the Pembroke Dockyard. In 1861 she was commanded by Lieutenant John D'Arcy on the North America and West Indies Station as a tender to HMS Nile. Commander Frederick William Lee was in command of Nimble from 19 October 1870 to 4 December 1871 and employed at Zanzibar in the suppression of the slave trade. She was placed in harbour service in 1879, and became a Royal Naval Reserve training ship at Hull in 1885.
She was sold to W. R. James on 10 July 1906.
References
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