Engineering:HMS Slinger (1917)
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Name: | HMS Slinger |
Builder: | Lobnitz and Company, Limited |
Launched: | 3 September 1917 |
Acquired: | 1917 |
Commissioned: | 1917 |
Fate: | Sold 16 October 1919 |
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Acquired: | 1920 |
Fate: | Sunk in collision 17 October 1941 |
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Length: | 195 ft 4 in (59.54 m) |
Beam: | 35 ft 5 in (10.80 m) |
Draught: | 14 ft 5 in (4.39 m) |
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Speed: | 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
HMS Slinger was an experimental catapult ship operated by the Royal Navy during the First World War. After Royal Navy service from 1917 to 1919, she operated as a commercial cargo ship under the names SS Niki and SS Lingfield from 1920 until she sank in 1941.
Constructed as a hopper barge, HMS Slinger was purchased from her builder, Lobnitz and Company, Limited of Renfrew, Scotland, prior to completion. Intending to use her as a test bed for the shipborne launching of aircraft, the Royal Navy fitted her with a 60-foot (18.25-meter) compressed air catapult. HMS Slinger operated Fairey F.127 and Short 310 seaplanes during 1918.
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Slinger was sold on 16 October 1919.
Later career
After her sale, the ship was converted into a merchant cargo ship. She entered commercial service under the Greek flag with Boyazides L, Brother & Company in 1920 as SS Niki. Niki was sold to Valsamakis & Company in 1934 and to Nomikos Petros in 1937, remaining under Greek ownership and registry throughout.[1] On 28 July 1920, Niki arrived leaking at Liverpool and was beached at Tranmere. Cheshire.[2] She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.
Niki was sold to Valsamakis & Company in 1934 and to Nomikos Petros in 1937, remaining under Greek ownership and registry throughout.[1] Later in 1937, Niki was sold to the Finchley Steamship Company and, under British registry, was renamed SS Lingfield. Lingfield continued to operate as a commercial cargo ship until 17 October 1941, when she collided with another vessel in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk, England , and sank.[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "SS Lingfield (+1941)". Wrecksite. http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?9862.
- ↑ "Casualty reports". The Times (London) (42475): col E, p. 19. 29 July 1920.
References
- Dittmar, F. J. & Colledge, J. J., "British Warships 1914-1919", (Ian Allan, London, 1972), ISBN:0-7110-0380-7
External links
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