Amazon-class sloop
Appearance
![]() HMS Dryad at anchor, with sails airing
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Class overview | |
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Operators | ![]() |
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. |
External links
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.