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 ships; all the others in the class survived into the 1920s. The last of the class, Mutine, survived until 1932 as a Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve drill ship.
Shearwater under sail (top) Rinaldo c. 1908 with sailing rig removed (bottom)
Image: HMS Shearwater (1900) under sail
Mutine as built with barque-rig
Sloop HMS Rinaldo
QF 4-inch naval gun Mk I – III
The QF 4-inch gun Mks I, II, III were early British QF (quick-firing) naval guns originating in 1895. They all had barrels of 40 calibres length.
Australian troops with gun on a transport ship, circa. November 1914
The 4-inch QF gun on Hirta looking towards Dùn