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HMS Doterel (1880)
HMS ''Doterel'' was a sloop launched by the Royal Navy in 1880. She sank at anchor off Punta Arenas after an explosion on 26 April 1881. Her loss caused the deaths of 143 crew members, and there were 12 survivors. She was en route to join the Pacific Station. Her loss was initially the source of much speculation. Causes considered included an attack by the Fenians, a lost torpedo, and a coal gas explosion. An enquiry in September 1881 concluded coal gas was the cause.
In November 1881, an explosion in killed three men and wounded seven; it was determined to have been caused by "xerotine siccative", one of a compound commonly called "patent driers." A survivor of the ''Doterel'' recalled smelling that compound shortly before the explosion. In 1883 the government determined xerotine siccative caused the first explosion on the ''Doterel'', which set off the more damaging explosion of the forward magazine. The Admiralty ordered the compound withdrawn from use in the Royal Navy and better ventilation below decks.
==Design and construction==
The ''Doterel'' class was designed by Nathaniel Barnaby as a development of William Henry White's 1874 . The graceful clipper bow of the ''Osprey''s was replaced by a vertical stem and the engines were more powerful. The hull was of composite construction, with wooden planks over an iron frame.〔 Power was provided by three cylindrical boilers, which supplied steam at to a two-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine driving a single screw. This arrangement produced and a top speed of .
Ships of the class were armed with two 7-inch (90 cwt) muzzle-loading rifled guns on pivoting mounts, and four 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns (two on pivoting mounts, and two broadside). Four machine guns and one light gun completed the weaponry.〔 All the ships of the class were provided with a barque rig,〔 that is, square-rigged foremast and mainmast, and fore-and-aft sails only on the mizzen mast.
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