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HMS ''Reynard'' was an 8-gun screw sloop of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1848, conducted anti-piracy work in Chinese waters and was wrecked on the Pratas Islands in the South China Sea on 31 May 1851. ==Construction== The Admiralty originally ordered the ship on 25 April 1847 from Woolwich Dockyard as the steam schooner ''Plumper''.〔 She was re-ordered from Deptford Dockyard as the screw sloop ''Reynard'' on 12 August 1847 to a design by John Edye, and laid down in August that year. She was launched on 21 March 1848 at Deptford and commissioned at Woolwich on 1 August 1848.〔 ''Reynard'' was the only ship ever built to the design. She was constructed of wood, was long and in the beam, and had a mean draught of . She had a displacement of 656 tons.〔 She was powered by a J. and G. Rennie two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine driving a single screw. Rated at 60 nominal horsepower, and developing 165 indicated horsepower, this unit was capable of driving her at .〔 Her armament of 8 guns consisted of two 32-pounder (56 cwt) muzzle-loading smooth-bore guns and six 32-pounder (25 cwt) muzzle-loading smooth-bore guns mounted to fire in a traditional broadside arrangement.〔〔"32-pounder" denotes the weight of projectile fired, 56 (or 25) cwt is the weight of the gun ("cwt" = hundredweight)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Reynard (1848)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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