Comus Class Corvette (1878)
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Nine Comus class steel corvettes were built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1880s.
| Overview of 9 vessels | |||||
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| Citations for this data available on individual ship pages | |||||
| Name | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
| Comus | John Elder & Company, Glasgow | 1876 | 3 Apr, 1878 | Sold 1904 | |
| Carysfort | John Elder & Company, Glasgow | 1876 | 26 Sep, 1878 | Sold 1899 | |
| Champion | John Elder & Company, Glasgow | 1876 | 1 Jul, 1878 | Sold 1931 | |
| Cleopatra | John Elder & Company, Glasgow | 1876 | 1 Aug, 1878 | Sold 1931 | |
| Conquest | John Elder & Company, Glasgow | 1876 | 28 Oct, 1878 | Sold 1899 | |
| Curacoa | John Elder & Company, Glasgow | 1876 | 18 Apr, 1878 | Sold 1904 | |
| Constance | Chatham Royal Dockyard | 1878 | 9 Jun, 1880 | Sold 1899 | |
| Canada | Portsmouth Royal Dockyard, | 1879 | 26 Aug, 1881 | Sold 1897 | |
| Cordelia | Portsmouth Royal Dockyard, | 1879 | 25 Oct, 1881 | Sold 1904 | |
Design & Construction
Performance
Armament
See Also
Footnotes
Bibliography
- 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).
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