Briton Class Corvette (1869)
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Three Briton class wooden screw corvettes were completed for the Royal Navy in the early 1870s.
| Overview of 3 vessels | |||||
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| Citations for this data available on individual ship pages | |||||
| Name | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
| Briton | Sheerness Royal Dockyard | 1868 | 6 Nov, 1869 | Sold 1887 | |
| Druid | Deptford Royal Dockyard | 1868 | 13 Mar, 1869 | Sold 1886 | |
| Thetis | Devonport Royal Dockyard | 1870 | 26 Oct, 1871 | Sold 1887 | |
Design & Construction
Performance
Armament
See Also
- Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
- Wikipedia
Footnotes
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