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HMS ''Waterwitch'' was a British hydrographic survey vessel active in eastern Asian waters from 1894 to 1912. She was a wooden vessel, purchased from a private owner specifically for survey work. She was lost in a collision in Singapore harbour in 1912. ==Construction and acquisition== She was built as a private vessel, ''Lancashire Witch '' in 1878 by R. Steel & Co of Greenock to a design by St Clare John Byrne for the owner, Sir Thomas George Fermor-Hesketh, 7th Baronet. She was of composite construction, meaning she was built with an iron keel, stem and stern posts, and iron framing, all planked with wooden planking. She was rigged as a three-masted schooner, with square-rigged sails on the foremast only (a "barquentine" rig). A two-cylinder compound inverted steam engine of drove a single screw. She was described in ''Lloyd's Yacht Register'' as an "auxiliary screw steamer".〔 File:Yacht Lancashire Witch.jpg|''Lancashire Witch'' approximately 1890 File:The Lancashire Witch wind vane.jpg|''Lancashire Witch'' wind vane on Frank James Hospital, East Cowes, IoW File:Steam Yacht Sunbeam.jpg|''Lancashire Witchs "sister" ''Sunbeam'' under full sail. 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 Waterwitch (1892)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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