Osprey Class Sloop (1876)

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Five Osprey class screw sloops were completed for the Royal Navy in the late 1870s.

Overview of 5 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name Builder Laid Down Launched Completed Fate
Osprey Sheerness Royal Dockyard 5 Aug, 1876 Sold 1890
Cormorant Chatham Royal Dockyard 12 Sep, 1877 Broken up 1949
Pelican Devonport Royal Dockyard 26 Apr, 1877 Sold 1901
Wild Swan Napier, Glasgow 28 Jan, 1876 Sold 1920
Penguin Napier, Glasgow 25 Mar, 1876 Sold 1924

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).


Osprey Class Composite Screw Sloop
Osprey Cormorant Pelican Wild Swan Penguin