HMS Goldfinch (1889)

HMS Goldfinch was a Redbreast-class gunboat of the Royal Navy, built at Sheerness Dockyard and launched on 18 May 1889.

She was converted into a survey vessel in January 1902,[2] and commissioned by Commander Frederick Charles Learmonth on 4 February 1902.

[5] In October 1902 she left Malta for the West Coast of Africa,[6] visiting Sierra Leone and Calabar in December.

[7] Goldfinch returned to Sheerness for refitting for continued service in 1906, but was found to be in poor condition and the sloop Mutine was refitted as a survey ship to replace her.

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Officers aboard Goldfinch at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, early 1900s