Hms Seagull: Firth Of Clyde
Minesweeper (20th Century)
Site Name Hms Seagull: Firth Of Clyde
Classification Minesweeper (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Clyde Estuary; Hms Seagull
Canmore ID 297075
Site Number NS18SW 8002
NGR NS 13 82
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/297075
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Dunoon And Kilmun
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NS18SW 8002 unlocated
Formerly entered in error as NS18SW 8001.
(Classified as Torpedo Gunboat: date of loss cited as 30 September 1918). HMS Seagull: this vessel was in collision and sank in the Firth of Clyde.
Registration: London. Built 1889. 735 tons displacement. Length: 69m. Beam: 9m.
(Location of loss cited as N56 0.0 W5 0.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Length: 230ft [70.1m]
Beam: 27ft [8.2m]
Maximum draught: 12ft [3.7m]
Displacement: 735 tons [unspecified]
Propulsion: 2 sets triple-expansion, 3-cylinder engines: 2 screws: [designed] 3500hp: 19kts
(Original) armament: 2x4-7in guns, 5x14in torpedo tubes [Also cited, presumably referring to later period of service, as 2x4-7in guns, 4x3pdr guns and 3 torpedo tubes]
Coal: (normal) 100 tons: (maximum) 160 tons
Complement: 90
This unit of the five-strong Gossamer class of Torpedo Gunboats was built at Chatham Dockyard, being undocked on 31 May 1889. She was converted for service as a minesweeper in 1909, and sank in collision in the Firth of Clyde on 30 September 1918.
The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. The vessel is classified as a minesweeper on account of the apparent nature of her secondary service at the date of loss.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 November 2008.
H M Le Fleming 1961; [F Jane] 2001; J J Colledge and B Warlow 2006.
Loss (30 September 1918)
(Classified as Torpedo Gunboat: date of loss cited as 30 September 1918). HMS Seagull: this vessel was in collision and sank in the Firth of Clyde.
Registration: London. Built 1889. 735 tons displacement. Length: 69m. Beam: 9m.
(Location of loss cited as N56 0.0 W5 0.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (21 November 2008)
Length: 230ft [70.1m]
Beam: 27ft [8.2m]
Maximum draught: 12ft [3.7m]
Displacement: 735 tons [unspecified]
Propulsion: 2 sets triple-expansion, 3-cylinder engines: 2 screws: [designed] 3500hp: 19kts
(Original) armament: 2x4-7in guns, 5x14in torpedo tubes [Also cited, presumably referring to later period of service, as 2x4-7in guns, 4x3pdr guns and 3 torpedo tubes]
Coal: (normal) 100 tons: (maximum) 160 tons
Complement: 90
This unit of the five-strong Gossamer class of Torpedo Gunboats was built at Chatham Dockyard, being undocked on 31 May 1889. She was converted for service as a minesweeper in 1909, and sank in collision in the Firth of Clyde on 30 September 1918.
The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. The vessel is classified as a minesweeper on account of the apparent nature of her secondary service at the date of loss.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 November 2008.
H M Le Fleming 1961; [F Jane] 2001; J J Colledge and B Warlow 2006.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 99
Name : HMS SEAGULL
Latitude : 560000
Longitude : 50000
Date Built : 1889
Registration : LONDON
Type : TORPEDO GUNBOAT
Tonnage : 735
Tonnage Code : D
Length : 69
Beam : 9
Loss Day : 30
Loss Month : 9
Loss Year : 1918
Comment : Collision and sunk in Firth of Clyde
