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==Service==
==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.{{HepperLosses|pp. 11,12}}


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Latest revision as of 19:17, 24 February 2017

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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