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|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Waterwitch''''' was one of three [[Vixen Class Gunboat (1865)|''Vixen'' Class armoured gunboats]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].
|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Waterwitch''''' was one of three [[Vixen Class Gunboat (1865)|''Vixen'' Class armoured gunboats]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].


==Service==
==Construction & Service==
 
Constructed at a cost of £58,775, ''Waterwitch'' was unique in that she employed hydraulic propulsion, which never produced a sufficient speed.  In late 1886, she was identified as one of forty-one vessels of various types the Navy had decided to dispose of due to their lack of practical value in the event of war.{{NMI|Tuesday, Nov 09, 1886; pg. 7; Issue 31912}}


==Captains==
==Captains==

Revision as of 15:09, 16 November 2018

H.M.S. Waterwitch (1866)
Builder: Thames Ironworks, Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Blackwall[1]
Laid down: 1864[2]
Launched: 28 Jun, 1866[3]
Commissioned: 1867[4]
Sold: 1890[5]

H.M.S. Waterwitch was one of three Vixen Class armoured gunboats completed for the Royal Navy.

Construction & Service

Constructed at a cost of £58,775, Waterwitch was unique in that she employed hydraulic propulsion, which never produced a sufficient speed. In late 1886, she was identified as one of forty-one vessels of various types the Navy had decided to dispose of due to their lack of practical value in the event of war.[6]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 111.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 111.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 111.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 111.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 111.
  6. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Nov 09, 1886; pg. 7; Issue 31912.


Vixen Class Armoured Gunboat
  Viper Vixen Waterwitch  
<– Britomart Class Small Fry (UK) H.M.S. Staunch –>
<– Britomart Class Gunboats (UK) H.M.S. Staunch –>
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