Amethyst-class corvette
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Class overview | |
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Name: | Amethyst-class |
Builders: | Devonport Dockyard, Sheerness Dockyard |
Operators: | ![]() |
Preceded by: | Volage class |
Succeeded by: | HMS Rover |
Built: | 1871–75 |
Completed: | 5 |
Scrapped: | 5 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Type: | Wooden screw corvette |
Displacement: | 1,934 long tons (1,965 t) |
Tons burthen: | 1,405 bm |
Length: | 220 ft (67.1 m) (p/p) |
Beam: | 37 ft (11.3 m) |
Draught: | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
Installed power: | 2,031–2,364 ihp (1,515–1,763 kW) |
Propulsion: |
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Sail plan: | Ship rig |
Speed: | 12–13 knots (22–24 km/h; 14–15 mph) |
Range: | 2,060–2,500 nmi (3,820–4,630 km; 2,370–2,880 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement: | 225 |
Armament: | 14 × 64-pounder 71-cwt or 64-cwt rifled muzzle-loading (RML) guns |
The Amythest-class corvettes were the last wooden warships built at a royal dockyard. Built in the early 1870s, they mostly served overseas and were retired early as they were regarded as hopelessly obsolete by the late 1880s.
Contents
Ships
Ship | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Completed | Fate | Cost |
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Amethyst | Devonport Dockyard[1] | 28 July 1871[2] | 19 April 1873[2] | July 1873[2] | Sold for scrap, November 1887[2] | N/A |
Diamond | Sheerness Dockyard[1] | 1873[2] | 26 August 1873[2] | July 1875[2] | Sold for scrap August 1889[2] | £76,796[2] |
Encounter | Sheerness Dockyard[1] | 19 June 1871[2] | 1 January 1873[2] | July 1873[2] | Sold for scrap October 1888[2] | £63,098[3] |
Modeste | Devonport Dockyard[1] | 27 November 1871[2] | 23 May 1873[2] | January 1874[2] | Sold for scrap, 8 January 1888[2] | N/A |
Sapphire | Devonport Dockyard[1] | 17 June 1873[2] | 24 September 1874[2] | August 1875[2] | Sold for scrap, 24 September 1892[2] | £78,297[2] |
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