| Name: | HANDY |
| Type: | Trials Ship |
| Keel: | 01/08/1882 |
| Launched: | 30/12/1882 |
| Completed: | 12/07/1883 |
| Builder: | Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co |
| Yard: | Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 451 |
| Dimensions: | 523disp, 115.0 x 37.0 x 8.0(draft)ft |
| Engines: | C2cyl, 315ihp |
| Engines by: | Ross & Duncan, Glasgow |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 9.0knots |
| Construction: | Iron |
| Armament: | Various |
| History: | |
| 12/07/1883 | British Royal Navy |
| 1891 | Renamed EXCELLENT |
| 11/1916 | Renamed CALCUTTA |
| 08/1917 | Renamed SNAPPER II |
| 27/04/1922 | Dover Harbour Board; renamed DEMON |
| 20/05/2008 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Built for gun mounting tests |
| Was fitted with 13.5ins, 12.0ins, 9.5ins & 7.5ins guns at various times | |
| 27/04/1922: Converted to a crane lighter | |
| 1971: To Pounds Shipbreakers at Portsmouth, where the crane was demolished | |
| Under consideration for preservation as a historic vessel | |
| 20/05/2008: Broken up by Pounds Shipbreakers at Portsmouth |
Above photo as HANDY is courtesy of NAI
Above photo at Pounds Scrapyard is by Dave Joyce
Above: Being broken up at Pounds Scrapyard. Photo by Dave Joyce