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Amazon-class sloop

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HMS Dryad at anchor, with sails airing
Class overview
Operators Royal Navy
Built1865 - 1866
In commission1865 - 1885
Completed6
Laid up4
Lost2
General characteristics
TypeScrew sloop
Displacement1574 tons
Length187 ft
Beam36 ft
Draught17 ft
Propulsion300 horsepower
Complement150
Armament4 guns

The 'Amazon-class' was a Royal Navy class of seven screw-sloops of wooden construction.

Name Launched    Fate
*HMS Amazon     (1865)   Sunk in collision with SS Osprey, off Start Point, English Channel 10 July 1866.
*HMS Vestal (1865) Sold 1884.
*HMS Niobe (1866) Wrecked on Miquelon Island, off the Atlantic Coast of Newfoundland 21 May 1874.
*HMS Dryad (1866) Sold 1886.
*HMS Daphne (1866) Sold 1882.
*HMS Nymph (1866) Sold 1884.

References

  • Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.