HMS Condor
From Graces Guide
HMS Condor was the name-ship of the Royal Navy Condor-class gun-ship carrying 3 guns.
Designed by Nathaniel Barnaby, the Royal Navy Director of Naval Construction, her hull was of composite construction; iron keel, frames, stem and stern posts with wooden planking. She was fitted with a 2-cylinder horizontal compound expansion steam engine driving a single screw, produced by John Elder and Co. She was rigged with three masts, with square rig on the fore- and main-masts, making her a barque-rigged vessel. Her keel was laid at Devonport Dockyard on 15 December 1875 and she was launched on 28 December 1876.
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