Amazon-class sloop
.jpg?lang=en) HMS Dryad at anchor, with sails airing
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Operators |  Royal Navy |
| Built | 1865 - 1866 |
| In commission | 1865 - 1885 |
| Completed | 6 |
| Laid up | 4 |
| Lost | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Screw sloop |
| Displacement | 1574 tons |
| Length | 187 ft |
| Beam | 36 ft |
| Draught | 17 ft |
| Propulsion | 300 horsepower |
| Complement | 150 |
| Armament | 4 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. |
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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.
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