H.M.S. Amazon (1865)
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| H.M.S. Amazon (1865) | |
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| Builder: | Pembroke Royal Dockyard[1] |
| Launched: | 23 May, 1865[2] |
| Collision: | 10 July, 1866[3] |
H.M.S. Amazon was one of six Amazon Class wooden screw sloops completed for the Royal Navy.
Construction & Service
Amazon, along with Template:UK-1Pallas participated in the first-ever joint celebration of American independence to occur in an English port on 4 July 1866 in Portsmouth Harbour alongside the American steam screwship Augusta.[4]
Amazon left Spithead a "perfectly new ship" capable of nearly 12.5 knots for Nova Scotia to take up service on the North American Station and was lost in a collision with the private screw steamer Osprey in the English Channel.[5]
Captains
- Commander Hugh Hunter, – 10 July, 1866 (ship lost to collision under his command)
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 55.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 55.
- ↑ "The Loss of the Amazon." The Times (London, England), 13 July, 1866; p. 6.
- ↑ "The Loss of the Amazon." The Times (London, England), 5 July, 1866; p. 12.
- ↑ "The Loss of the Amazon." The Times (London, England), 13 July, 1866; p. 6.
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