Satellite Class Corvette (1881)

Seven Satellite class corvettes were built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1880s. They were planned as composite screw sloops but were upgraded to corvettes.

Overview of 7 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Completed	Fate
Satellite	Sheerness Royal Dockyard	Oct, 1880	13 Aug, 1881		Sold 1904
Caroline	Sheerness Royal Dockyard	Oct, 1881	25 Nov, 1882		Sold 1929
Heroine	Devonport Royal Dockyard	Aug, 1880	3 Dec, 1881		Sold 1902
Hyacinth	Devonport Royal Dockyard	Aug, 1880	20 Dec, 1881		Sold 1902
Rapid	Devonport Royal Dockyard	Apr, 1881	21 Mar, 1883		Sold 1948
Pylades	Sheerness Royal Dockyard	Jan, 1883	5 Nov, 1884		Sold 1906
Royalist	Devonport Royal Dockyard	Apr, 1881	7 Mar, 1883		Transferred 19 Feb, 1923

See Also

• Wikipedia

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).