Amazon Class Sloop (1865)
From The Dreadnought Project
Six Amazon class wooden screw sloops were completed for the Royal Navy in the mid to late 1860s.
| Overview of 6 vessels | |||||
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| Citations for this data available on individual ship pages | |||||
| Name | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
| Amazon | Pembroke Royal Dockyard | 23 May, 1865 | Sunk 1866 | ||
| Daphne | Pembroke Royal Dockyard | 23 Oct, 1866 | Sold 1882 | ||
| Dryad | Devonport Royal Dockyard | 25 Sep, 1866 | Sold 1885 | ||
| Niobe | Deptford Royal Dockyard | 31 May, 1866 | Wrecked 1874 | ||
| Nymphe | Deptford Royal Dockyard | 24 Nov, 1866 | Sold 1882 | ||
| Vestal | Pembroke Royal Dockyard | 16 Nov, 1865 | Sold 1884 | ||
Design & Construction
Performance
Armament
See Also
- 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).
- Wikipedia
Footnotes
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