HMS Fantome (1873)

NameHMS Fantome

BuilderChatham Royal Dockyard

Laid down1872

Launched26 March 1873

Fantome
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Fantome
Builder	Chatham Royal Dockyard
Laid down	1872
Launched	26 March 1873
Completed	December 1873
Decommissioned	1886
Fate	Sold for scrap, February 1889
General characteristics
Class & type	Fantome-class sloop
Displacement	949 long tons (964 t)
Tons burthen	727 bm
Length	160 ft (48.8 m) (p/p)
Beam	31 ft 4 in (9.6 m)
Draught	14 ft (4.3 m)
Depth	15 ft 6 in (4.7 m)
Installed power	975 ihp (727 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	1,000 nmi (1,900 km; 1,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	125
Armament	2 × 7-inch rifled muzzle-loading guns 2 × 6.3-inch 64-pounder rifled muzzle-loading guns

HMS Fantome was the lead ship of the Fantome-class sloops built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1870s.