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|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Daphne''''' was one of six [[Amazon Class Sloop (1865)|''Amazon'' Class wooden screw sloops]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].

==Service==
Newly completed, on 11 December 1866 ''Daphne'' was placed in the Keyham Steamyard.{{NMI|14 December, 1866; p. 7}}

She tested her new engines off the Plymouth Breakwater on 17 April, 1867 under the supervision of Captain [[George Ommanney Willes]], the sloop being navigated by a Mr. Edmund Swain.{{NMI|19 April, 1867; p. 5}}

During a practice off the Isle of Wight for the upcoming Naval Review in mid-July 1867, ''Daphne'' assumed her place in the Starboard Division of the Ironclad Line and puzzled onlookers in response to a signaled manoevres finding her place in the line ahead of the ''Valiant'' only after "sundry and inexplicable manoeuvres".{{ToL|The Naval Review|13 July, 1867; p. 7}}

''Daphne'' was commissioned at Devonport by Commander [[Richard Adams]] on 12 October, 1871.{{NMI|9 October, 1871; p. 5}}

==Captains==
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=George Lydiard Sulivan|nick=George L. Sulivan|appt=4 June, 1867{{NLJan69|p. 190}}{{ToL|The Naval Review|9 July, 1867; p. 5}}|end=|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=George Amelius Douglas|nick=George A. Douglas|appt=1 June, 1869{{NLJul69|p. 189}}|end=24 May, 1870}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Richard Adams|nick=Richard Adams|appt=6 October, 1871{{NLDec71|p. 147}}|end=25 February, 1872|note=died while in command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Richard Sacheverell Bateman|nick=Richard S. Bateman|appt=5 March, 1872{{NLJul73|p. 142}}|end=24 November, 1873|note=invalided}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Charles Edward Foot|nick=Charles E. Foot|appt=27 October, 1873{{NLOct75|p. 138}}|end=31 December, 1875}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=George Bruce Evans|nick=George B. Evans|appt=5 January, 1876{{NLJul76|p. 138}}|end=2 July, 1877}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Dashwood Goldie Tandy|nick=Dashwood G. Tandy|appt=6 July, 1877{{NLOct78|p. 204}}|end=31 December, 1878}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=William Henry Collingwood Selby|nick=William H. C. Selby|appt=1 January, 1879|end=30 April, 1879}}
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==See Also==
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==Footnotes==
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