Name | Encounter | Explanation |
Type | Sloop |
Type | Corvette |
Launched | 1 January 1873 |
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Hull | Wooden |
Length | 190 feet |
Propulsion | Screw |
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Displacement | 1970 tons |
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Guns | 14 |
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Fate | 1888 |
Last in commission | 1883 |
Class | Amethyst |
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Ships book | ADM 135/154 |
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Career |
Date | Event |
1 January 1873 | Launched at Sheerness Dockyard. |
21 August 1873 - 1 September 1873 | Commanded (from commissioning at Sheerness) by Captain Edwin John Pollard, Sheerness |
1 September 1873 - 14 December 1877 | Commanded (until paying off at Sheerness) by Captain Richard Bradshaw, west coast of Africa, then (January 1876) North America and West Indies |
14 December 1877 | Paid off. |
9 January 1879 | Commanded (from commissioning at Sheerness) by Captain Albert Denison Somerville Denison, China |
(1883) - 15 June 1883 | Commanded (until paying off at Sheerness) by Captain George Robinson, China |
October 1888 | Sold. |