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{{Short description|Wooden second-class gunvessel of the Royal Navy}}
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|Ship image=[[File:USS Jeannette;h52199.jpg|300px|Jeanette]]
|Ship caption=''Nimble''{{'}}s sister ship ''Jeanette'' (ex-HMS ''Pandora'') at Le Havre in 1878
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|Ship country=United Kingdom
|Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|naval}}
|Ship name=HMS ''Nimble''
|Ship ordered=27 March 1858
|Ship builder=[[Pembroke Dockyard]], [[Wales]]
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|Ship laid down=30 October 1859
|Ship launched=15 September 1860<ref name=RW/>
|Ship commissioned=8 April 1861<ref name=RW>Winfield (2004) p.221</ref>
|Ship fate=*Harbour service 1879
*RNR training ship at Hull 1885
*Sold to W R James on 10 July 1906<ref name=RW/>
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|Ship displacement=570 tons
|Ship length=*{{convert|145|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} [[Length overall|oa]]
*{{convert|127|ft|10.25|in|m|1|abbr=on}} [[length between perpendiculars|pp]]
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|Ship power={{convert|334|ihp|kW|abbr=on}}<ref name=RW/>
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* Single 2-cyl. horizontal single-expansion steam engine by A & J Inglis
* Single screw
|Ship speed={{convert|9.9|kn|km/h|0}}<ref name=RW/>
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|Ship complement=60
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* One 68-pdr muzzle-loading smooth-bore gun
* Two 24-pdr howitzers 
* Two 20-pdr breech-loading guns<ref name=RW/>
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'''HMS ''Nimble''''' was a wooden [[Philomel class gunvessel|''Philomel''-class]] [[gunvessel]] of the [[Royal Navy]]. She was equipped with 5 guns. She became a drill ship for the [[Royal Naval Reserve]] at Hull in 1885 and was disposed of in 1906.

==History==
HMS ''Nimble'' was launched on 15 September 1860 from the [[Pembroke Dockyard]]. In 1861 she was commanded by Lieutenant <!--the rank "Lieutenant Commander" was not created until March 1914-->{{cn|date=July 2020}} On 1 October 1866, she was blown ashore in a [[hurricane]] at [[Nassau, Bahamas]].<ref name=Times061166>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=6 November 1866 |page=10 |issue=25548 |column=F }}</ref><ref name=Times161166>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Hurricane at the Bahamas |date=16 November 1866 |page=8 |issue=25557 |column=B-C }}</ref> John D'Arcy on the [[North America and West Indies Station]] as a tender to {{HMS|Nile|1839|6}}. Commander Frederick William Lee was in command of ''Nimble'' from 19 October 1870 to 4 December 1871 and employed at [[Zanzibar]] in the suppression of the slave trade. She was placed in harbour service in 1879, and became a Royal Naval Reserve training ship at [[Port of Hull|Hull]] in 1885.

She was sold to W. R. James on 10 July 1906.

==References==
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== Bibliography ==

*{{winfield}}

==External links==
*[http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=1818 ''Nimble'' at the William Loney website]

{{Philomel class gunvessel}}
{{1866 shipwrecks}}

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[[Category:1860 ships]]
[[Category:Ships built in Pembroke Dock]]
[[Category:Philomel-class gunvessels]]
[[Category:Victorian-era gunboats of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Maritime incidents in October 1866]]


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