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HMS Dart (1882) : ウィキペディア英語版 | HMS Dart (1882)
HMS ''Dart'' was a schooner of the Royal Navy, built by the Barrow Shipbuilding Company, Barrow and launched in 1877 as ''Cruiser'' for Lord Eglinton. She was subsequently purchased by the Colonial Office for the use of Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon as governor of the Fiji Islands. On his appointment to New Zealand ''Cruiser'' was purchased by the Royal Navy as a tender for the training ship ''Britannia'' and the name changed to ''Dart'' in March 1882.〔Bastock, p.92.〕
==Hydrographic survey work== Requisitioned as a yacht for the Commander-in-Chief, Australia Station, she instead was fitted out for survey duties of the Australia Station.〔 She commenced service on the Australia Station in 1883 undertaking hydrographic surveys around Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific;〔 including survey work in the waters of Fiji, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Marshall Islands and New Britain Island, from May to September, 1884. In 1883 ''Dart'' became involved with an action in the New Hebrides under the command of Lieutenant-Commander W W Moore. This followed the murder of Captain Belbin of the Borough Belle. A party was landed from ''Dart'' and in the engagement that followed, 8 natives and one crew man were killed with another wounded. Punishment in the form of confiscation of weapons and burning of villages took place after the incident.
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