HMS Condor was a sloop of the Royal Navy, and was the lead ship of her class.[1] She was launched on 17 December 1898, and sunk in a gale on 3 December 1901.
Condor had a displacement of 980 tonnes, a length of 204feet, a draught of 11.4feet, and a speed of 13.5kn.[2] [3] She had a crew size of 140 servicemen.
Condor was laid down on 1 January 1898 in Sheerness, England. She was launched on 17 December 1898, however, the Condor would not be fully completed until 1 November 1900, being commissioned that same day.[4] On 2 December 1901, she departed from Esquimalt, British Columbia, bound for Honolulu. On 3 December, she passed through Cape Flattery, she accidentally entered into a strong gale, and sunk. After two months, on 3 February 1902, she was listed as missing in action with all hands lost.
In May 1949, 47 years after the sinking of Condor, the fishing trawler Blanco was fishing about north of Cape Flattery, when her nets got tangled on a piece of the wreckage. The nets were pulled in, recovering Condors binnacle and other miscellaneous pieces of the ship's wreckage. The rest of the wreckage was never found.