H.M.S. Moorhen (1875)

H.M.S. Moorhen (1875)
Builder:	Robert Napier & Sons^[1]
Launched:	13 Sep, 1875^{[Citation needed]}
Sold:	1888^[2]

H.M.S. Moorhen was one of twelve Forester Class gunboats completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Built at a cost of £20,246.^[3]

By November, 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.^[4]

Captains

Lieutenant & Commander John Hope, 10 February, 1876^[5] – 18 July, 1877 (invalided)
Lieutenant & Commander William M. Carey, 28 July, 1877^[6]
Lieutenant & Commander James H. Corfe, 14 September, 1880^[7]

Footnotes

↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 112.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 112.
↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Nov 09, 1886; pg. 7; Issue 31912.
↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Nov 09, 1886; pg. 7; Issue 31912.
↑ The Navy List. (July, 1876). p. 190.
↑ The Navy List. (October, 1878). p. 225.
↑ The Navy List. (April, 1883). p. 225.