Doterel Class Screw Sloop
HMS Gannet
A visit on board HMS Gannet at Chatham Historic Dockyard on 6th July 2018. HMS Gannet is a former Doterel Class Sloop of the Royal Navy and is today preserved as part of the National Historic Fleet. Built at Sheerness Royal Dockyard, HMS Gannet was launched on 31st August 1878. A screw composite sloop with a displacement of 1130 tons, she was commissioned into the fleet on 17th April 1879, and served in the fleet until 1895. In 1903 she was renamed as HMS President and acted as Headquarters Ship for the London Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in South West India Docks. From 1913, she was moored in the River Hamble, and became the dormitory ship for TS Mercury, a role she continued to serve in until 1968, later passing into preservation in 1987 and has today been restored to her 1888 condition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz9ZX43yR1s