HMS Karrakatta

HMS Karrakatta, also spelled Karakatta, was a Sharpshooter class torpedo gunboat of the Royal Navy, launched in 1889. The class was designed by Sir William White in 1888. She was laid down on 17 August 1888 as yard number 546 at the Armstrong Whitworth yard at Elswick, originally named Wizard, and launched on 27 August 1889. Renamed Karrakatta on 2 April 1890, she was commissioned in February 1891 and served in the Auxiliary Squadron of the Australia Station from 1890 until 1903. Her two sets of triple expansion steam engines drove twin screws for a top speed of about 19 knots, and she carried two 4.7 inch guns, four 3 pounders and five torpedo tubes. She was sold in July 1905.