HMS Albatross (1873)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Albatross.

300px HMS Albatross's sister ship, HMS Egeria
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Albatross
Namesake:	Albatross
Builder:	Chatham Royal Dockyard
Laid down:	1872
Launched:	27 April 1873
Completed:	February 1874
Fate:	Scrapped, 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:	838 ihp (625 kW)
Propulsion:	1 shaft 1 × 2-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine 3 × cylindrical boilers
Sail plan:	Barque rig
Speed:	10 knots (19 km/h; 12 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 Albatross was a 4-gun Fantome-class sloop built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1870s.