HMS Sapphire (1874)

HMS Sapphire was an Amethyst-class corvette built for the Royal Navy at Devonport Dockyard and launched on 24 September 1874.[1]

History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Sapphire
Namesake: Sapphire
Builder: Devonport Dockyard
Cost: £78,297
Laid down: 17 June 1873
Launched: 24 September 1874
Completed: August 1875
Fate: Sold for scrap, 24 September 1892
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type: Amethyst-class wooden screw corvette
Tonnage: 1,405 bm
Displacement: 1,934 long tons (1,965 t)
Length: 220 ft (67.1 m) (p/p)
Beam: 37 ft (11.3 m)
Draught: 18 ft (5.5 m)
Installed power: 2,364 ihp (1,763 kW)
Propulsion:
Sail plan: Ship rig
Speed: 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Range: approximately 2,500 nmi (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement: 225
Armament:

She commenced service on the Australia Station in August 1875.[1] She left the Australia Station in July 1879 and returned to England and was refitted and rearmed. After refit she commissioned for the China Station in 1883 until 1890. She returned to Plymouth and was paid off.[1]

Looking forward from the poop deck, circa. 1878

Fate

She was sold on 24 September 1892 to G. Cohen.[1]

See also

Notes

    Footnotes

    1. Bastock, p. 73

    Bibliography

    • Ballard, G. A. (1937). "British Corvettes of 1875: The Last Wooden class". Mariner's Mirror. Cambridge, UK: Society for Nautical Research. 23 (October): 435–45.
    • Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 0-86777-348-0
    • Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
    • Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6.


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