HMS Wild Swan (1876)

HMS Wild Swan was an Osprey-class sloop built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1870s.

[2][1] An R & W Hawthorn two-cylinder horizontal returning-rod steam engine fed by three cylindrical boilers provided 797 indicated horsepower (594 kW) to the single 13 ft (4.0 m) propeller screw.

[1] Wild Swan was built by Robert Napier and Sons, of Govan, Scotland.

[1] Wild Swan patrolled off the coast of Mozambique in 1880, operating against the slave trade.

She was withdrawn from the list and re-fitted in late 1901 as a training ship in Kingstown Harbour for men of the Royal Navy Reserve and coastguards of the North of Ireland stations.