H.M.S. Espoir (1880)

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H.M.S. Espoir (1880)
Builder: Barrow Iron Shipbuilding[1]
Launched: 2 Nov, 1880[Citation needed]
Deleted: 1904[2]

H.M.S. Espoir was one of 11 gunboats of the Banterer class.

Service

Commissioned at Devonport on 11 January, 1883.[3]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 112.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 112.
  3. The Navy List. (September, 1885). p. 209.
  4. The Navy List. (July, 1884). p. 209.
  5. The Navy List. (September, 1885). p. 209.
  6. The Navy List. (February, 1888). p. 207.
  7. Smith Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39/516. f. 1252.

Bibliography


Banterer Class Gunboat
Pembroke-built
  Redwing Bullfrog Cockchafer  
Barrow Iron Shipbuilding-built
Grappler Wrangler Wasp Banterer Espoir
Samuda Brothers-built
  Starling Stork Raven  
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