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HMS ''Swinger'' was an ''Ariel''-class composite gunboat of the Royal Navy, built at Pembroke Dockyard and launched on 7 February 1872.〔Bastock, pp.93-94.〕 She served at first on the China Station and from 1883 on the Australia Station. She was hulked in 1895 sold for breaking in 1924. ==Design and construction== Designed by Sir Edward Reed, Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy, the ''Ariel''-class gunboats were the first gunboats of composite construction.〔 ''Swinger'' was engined by Humphrys, Tennant & Co. with a horizontal single-expansion steam engine (the rest of the class had compound-expansion engines) developing an indicated horsepower of . She was armed with two 64-pounder (56cwt) muzzle-loading rifles and two 20-pounder Armstrong breech loaders. All 4 guns were mounted on traversing carriages. Some of the class were re-armed in the 1880s with two 5-inch and two 4-inch breech loaders. All the ships of the class carried a three-masted barquentine rig.〔
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