Mariner-class gunvessel

	HMS Racer
Class overview
Name	Mariner-class gunvessels (later reclassified sloops)
Builders	Devonport Dockyard; Malta Dockyard; Milford Haven Shipbuilding Co;
Operators	Royal Navy
Cost	Hull: £34,834; Machinery: £12,787; (Reindeer);
Built	1883–1888
In commission	1883–1929
Completed	6
General characteristics
Type	Composite screw gunvessel (rated as sloops from 1884)
Displacement	970 tons
Length	167 ft (51 m) pp
Beam	32 ft (9.8 m)
Draught	14 ft (4.3 m)
Installed power	850 ihp (630 kW)
Propulsion	2-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine; Single screw;
Sail plan	Barque-rigged, except Icarus (barquentine-rigged)
Speed	11+1⁄2 knots (21.3 km/h)
Range	Approximately 2,100 nmi (3,900 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h)
Complement	126
Armament	8 × 5-inch 38cwt breech-loading guns; 1 × light gun; 8 × machine guns;

The Mariner class was a class of six 8-gun gunvessels (sloops from 1884) built for the Royal Navy between 1883 and 1888. Four were built in the Naval Dockard at Devonport, and two elsewhere; the Acorn was built by contract at Jacobs Pill on the Pembroke River (a private yard founded in the 1870s by Sir Edward Reed), while the Melita was built in the Malta Dockyard, the only substantial ship of the Royal Navy ever to be built in the island.

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