Condor-class sloop
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The Condor class was a six-ship class of 10-gun screw steel sloops built for the Royal Navy between 1898 and 1900. Condor foundered in a gale, prompting the Royal Navy to abandon sailing rigs for its
Shearwater under sail (top) Rinaldo c. 1908 with sailing rig removed (bottom)
Mutine as built with barque-rig
Sloop HMS Rinaldo
The QF 4-inch gun Mks I, II, III were early British QF naval guns originating in 1895. They all had barrels of 40 calibres length.
Condor-class sloop
…sails entirely. All other ships of the class had their sails removed during the first few years of the twentieth century. The class was armed with six 4-inch/25-pounder (1 ton) quick-firing breech loaders and four 3-pounder quick-firing breech loaders. The design of the Condor class differed from the screw sloops of the 1860s only in an evolutionary sense…
Australian troops with gun on a transport ship, circa. November 1914
The 4-inch QF gun on Hirta looking towards Dùn