by Whickham » Thu Jan 30, 2014 8:14 pm
What a prison!. According to Wiki:
HMS SATELLITE
A Satellite Class loop built by Sheerness Dockyard, launched 13/08/1881
These ships were designed to patrol the far-flung reaches of Britain's maritime empire, and so Rapid and Royalist both went to the Australian Station, Satellite to the Pacific Station, Pylades to the North America and West Indies Station and Heroine, Caroline and Hyacinth all to the China Station.
SATELLITE became a RNVR drill ship at North Shields on the River Tyne in 1904. Sold to J G Potts for breaking on 21 October 1947
Dave