HMS Rattler was a 9-gun steam screw sloop of the Royal Navy, and one of the first British warships to be completed with screw propulsion. She was originally ordered as a paddle wheel 4-gun steam vessel (Steam Vessel Second Class – SV2) from Sheerness Dockyard on …

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Rattler: HMS Rattler (1783) was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1783 and sold in 1792. She then made two voyages as a whaler and two voyages as a slave ship before she was condemned as unseaworthy in 1802.

Propeller versus paddle wheel: To determine which was more efficient, the Royal Navy staged a tug of war, with a hawser connecting the propeller-driven HMS Rattler (left) stern to stern with her near-sister, the side-wheel sloop HMS Alecto.

HMS Rattler was a 16-gun Echo-class sloop of the Royal Navy. Launched in March 1783, she saw service in the Leeward Islands and Nova Scotia before being paid off in 1792 and sold to whaling company Samuel Enderby & Sons.

HMS Rattler was a 9-gun steam screw sloop of the Royal Navy, and one of the first British warships to be completed with screw propulsion. She was originally ordered as a paddle wheel 4-gun steam vessel (Steam Vessel Second Class – SV2) from Sheerness Dockyard on …

HMS Rattler was a 12-gun wooden sloop of the Royal Navy and the first British warship to adopt a screw propeller powered by a steam engine. She was arguably the first such warship in the world - the sloop USS Princeton was launched after the …

Oct 1, 2021 · HMS Rattler was a lengthened Alecto class and outfitted with a third mast. To accommodate the screw propeller, Rattler was lengthened by 12ft 6in over the Alecto class length of 164ft, raising the displacement tonnage from 878 tons to 1,112 tons and changing the hydrodynamics positively.

In March 1845 the ships were put through their paces. First up was a race over a hundred miles, which the Rattler won comfortably. Next came the famous tug-of-war. The frigates were tied stern to stern and then both sailed off in different directions.

The tug-of-war: HMS Rattler (l) towing HMS Alecto (r) March 1845. The resulting design was to be HMS Rattler, an 894-ton, 185-ft long wooden sloop powered by a 440-hp steam engine, with an auxiliary sailing rig. The latter was to remain a standard feature of practically all warship types for the next half-century since it allowed a degree of ...

Aug 26, 2023 · H.M.S. Rattler was one of four Bramble class gunboats completed for the Royal Navy. In 1891, she was slated to soon be paid off and re-commissioned at Hong Kong, with Lieutenant John George Heugh being re-appointed in command. [4] Rattler arrived at Gibraltar from the West Coast of Africa in mid-August, 1903.