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HMS Reindeer (1866)

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Name
  
HMS Reindeer

Commissioned
  
October 1866

Construction started
  
May 1860

Length
  
56 m

Displacement
  
1.238 million kg

Beam
  
10 m

Laid down
  
May 1860

Class and type
  
Camelion-class sloop

Launched
  
29 March 1866

Weight
  
1,387 tons

Draft
  
4.47 m

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Builder
  
Royal Dockyard, Chatham

Fate
  
Sold out of service, 28 August 1873

HMS Reindeer was a Royal Navy wooden-hulled screw-driven sloop of the Camelion class, in service from 1866 to 1876. In 1868 she claimed Caroline Island for the British Crown.

References

HMS Reindeer (1866) Wikipedia