HMS Hecla (1878)
HMS Hecla (1878)


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NameHecla (1878)Explanation
TypeTorpedo depot ship   
Launched7 March 1878
HullIron
PropulsionScrew
Builders measure 
Displacement6400 tons
Guns6
Fate1926
Class 
Ships book
NoteLaid down as mercantile British Crown
Snippets concerning this vessels career
DateEvent
3 September 1878
- 11 April 1881
Commanded by Captain Morgan Singer, Portsmouth
(5 March 1881)
- 30 July 1884
Commanded by Captain Arthur Knyvet Wilson, Mediterranean, including Sudan campaign
2 June 1885
- 3 August 1885
Commanded by Captain Albert Hastings Markham (temporary)
Extracts from the Times newspaper
DateExtract
Ma 15 November 1880The following information respecting the movements of Her Majesty's ships is supplied by the Admiralty: — From Malta letters have been received from the Rear-Admiral Superintendent up to the 8th inst.; the Téméraire will be ready for sea the 27th inst.; and the Cygnet on the 20th inst.; the Invincible and Hecla are in port. Her Majesty's troopship Orontes left Port Said for England on the 12th inst. From the West Coast of Africa letters hive been received from the Senior Officer in the Dido, at Fernando Po, up to the 2d of October; had arrived from Bonny on the 1st of October, with the Firebrand in company, and would proceed to Ambas Bay, Batanga, and Cape Lopez, returning to Quitta via St Thomas. The Firebrand would relieve the Firefly at St. Paul de Loando. From the Cape of Good Hope intelligence has been received that the Commodore, in the Boadicea, was at Simon's Bay on the 14th inst. From the East Indies, letters have been received from the Commander-in-Chief, Rear-Admiral Gore Jones, C.B., in the Euryalus, was at Trincomalee up to the 12th of October. Was about to sail for Rangoon, and would be met there by the Eclipse and the Dryad. The Beacon was at Bussorah, the Ready was at Muscat, the Woodlark was at Karachi on the 6th October. The Ruby, the Dragon, and the Wild Swan, were on East Coast of Africa. The Seagull was at Aden, and would visit Jeddah shortly. The Philomel, coming to Aden from Seychelles, arrived there on the 20th October. Her Majesty's Indian troopship Serapis left Bombay for England on Saturday, the 13th inst.


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