HMS Endymion (1865)

HMS Endymion rounding the Cape of Good Hope.
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Endymion
Builder	Deptford Dockyard
Laid down	20 October 1860
Launched	18 November 1865
Completed	September 1866
Commissioned	27 September 1866
Decommissioned	31 July 1879
Fate	Loaned out 1881, sold in 1885
United Kingdom
Name	Endymion
Owner	Metropolitan Asylums Board
Acquired	5 July 1881 (loan) 1885 (purchase)
In service	1881
Out of service	1904
Fate	Scrapped 1905
General characteristics
Class and type	Frigate (1865–81) Administrative and hospital ship (1881–1904)
Displacement	3,197 long tons (3,248 t)
Tons burthen	2,47830⁄94 tons BOM (design) 2,486 tons BOM (as built)
Length	240 ft (73.2 m)
Beam	47 ft 11 in (14.6 m)
Draught	18 ft 8 in (5.69 m)
Installed power	1,620 ihp (1,210 kW) 500 nominal horsepower
Propulsion	Sails, 1 × 500 nhp steam engine, 1 shaft
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Speed	12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph)
Complement	450
Armament	4 × 100-pounder guns 3 × 110-pounder guns 14 × 8-inch guns

HMS Endymion was a 21-gun Ister-class wooden screw frigate, the third of four ships of this name to serve in the Royal Navy. She was the last wooden frigate built at Deptford Dockyard. She was commissioned in 1866 and spent much of her service based at Malta. In 1869–70 she sailed around the world as part of a Flying Squadron. She remained in front-line service until 1874.

Endymion then served as a guard ship at Hull, Yorkshire until 1879, latterly with her boilers condemned as unfit for service. A plan to use her as a flagship at Harwich, Essex from 1875 was abandoned due to the loss of HMS Vanguard. During her time at Hull, crew from Endymion assisted the local police in fighting a number of fires in buildings and timber yards.

Emdymion was lent to the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1881 for use as an administration and hospital ship, initially at Greenwich, Kent and later at Dartford. She was sold out of service in 1885, and served as an administration ship until 1904. Endymion was sold in December 1904 and broken up in 1905.