History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Osprey
Namesake	Osprey
Builder	Sheerness Royal Dockyard
Cost	Hull £39,664, machinery £11,674
Laid down	1875
Launched	5 August 1876
Completed	19 April 1877
Decommissioned	1889
Fate	Sold for scrap, 29 April 1890
General characteristics
Class and type	Osprey-class screw composite sloop
Displacement	1,130 long tons (1,150 t)
Length	170 ft (51.8 m) (p/p)
Beam	36 ft (11.0 m)
Draught	15 ft 9 in (4.8 m)
Depth	19 ft 6 in (5.9 m)
Installed power	946 ihp (705 kW)
Propulsion	1 shaft 1 × 2-cylinder horizontal compound expansion steam engine 3 × cylindrical boilers
Sail plan	Barque rig
Speed	11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Range	1,480 nmi (2,740 km; 1,700 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	140
Armament	2 × 7-inch rifled muzzle-loading guns 4 × 6.3-inch 64-pounder rifled muzzle-loading guns

HMS Osprey was an Osprey-class sloop built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1870s.

References

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