H.M.S. Doterel (1880)

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H.M.S. Doterel (1880)
Builder: Chatham Royal Dockyard[1]
Launched: 2 Mar, 1880[2]
Exploded: 26 Apr, 1881[3]

H.M.S. Doterel was one of nine Doterel Class composite screw sloops completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Doterel was lost to a pair of explosions while anchored in Punta Arenas, Chile. As she was preparing to coal at 10am, an explosion blew a hole in her starboard side. A larger magazine explosion forward followed one minute later. The ship sank quickly with only seventeen survivors of a crew of 143. Commander Richard Evans, who had been taking a bath at the moment of the first explosion, was among the survivors.[4]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 57.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 57.
  3. Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. pp. 11, 12.
  4. Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. pp. 11,12.
  5. Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. pp. 11, 12.

Bibliography


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