HMS Shearwater (1900)

The bridge was located on the poop deck and the ships were designed with a clipper bow and a slightly raked funnel.[3] Shearwater was powered by a Thames Iron Works three-cylinder vertical triple-expansion steam engine developing 1,400 indicated horsepower (1,000 kW) from four Belleville boilers and driving twin screws.[3] Shearwater was commissioned at Chatham 24 October 1901 by Commander Charles Henry Umfreville, with a complement of 104 officers and men.Shearwater and Algerine remained at Esquimalt, and in 1910 the Naval Service Bill was passed, creating the Royal Canadian Navy.For the remainder of the war, she saw very limited duty as a Royal Canadian Navy support vessel on the Atlantic coast, mostly spent training with the CC-class submarines in Baddeck Bay.
HMCS Shearwater c.1918
HMS ShearwaterEsquimaltHM DockyardSheernessLady Bowden-SmithRoyal Canadian NavyCondor-classBarquebarquentineQF 4-inch (102 mm) gunsQF 3-pounder (47 mm) gunsdepot shiplaid downSheerness DockyardlaunchedNathaniel Bowden-SmithCommander-in-Chief, The Norelength overallbetween perpendicularsdraughtdisplacedWilliam WhiteDirector of Naval Constructionbridgepoop deckclipper bowvertical triple-expansion steam engineBelleville boilersnautical milesCondorAdmiral Percy ScottAdmiralty4-inch/25 pdr (1 ton) quick-firing breech loaders3-pounder quick-firing breech loadersforecastleSeymour NarrowsBritish ColumbiacommissionedChathamthe NoreIcarusPacific StationBering SeaHonoluluFanning IslandstationfacilitiesEsquimalt, British ColumbiaCanadian Department of Marine and FisheriesAlgerineNaval Service BillFirst World WarMexicocivil warSMS LeipzigSMS NurnbergHMCS Rainbowshore batteryHalifax, Nova ScotiaHMCS Niobesubmarine tenderCC-classsubmarinesPanama Canalpaid offWayback MachineAdmiral Sir Percy Scott, Bt.Colledge, J. J.Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal NavyCondor-class sloopsMutinePhoenix classCadmus classList of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy