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|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Vestal''''' was one of six [[Amazon Class Sloop (1865)|''Amazon'' Class wooden screw sloops]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].
 
|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Vestal''''' was one of six [[Amazon Class Sloop (1865)|''Amazon'' Class wooden screw sloops]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].
  
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==Construction & Service==
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In November 1865, the steam storeship H.M.S. ''Fox'' loaded four boilers, condensers and related machinery at Woolwich to convey to Pembroke for installation in ''Vestal''.{{NMI|11 November, 1865; p. 12}}
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''Vestal'' vacated the #3 dock in Keyham Steamyard so it could be taken up by the steam screwship ''Lord Clyde''.{{NMI|5 September, 1866; p. 7}}
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=James Edward Hunter|nick=James E. Hunter|appt=9 March, 1868{{NLJul69|p. 221}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Henry Hand|nick=Henry Hand|appt=14 July, 1875{{NLJul76|p. 182}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=William Henry Collingwood Selby|nick=William H. C. Selby|appt=23 April, 1877{{NLOct78|p. 249}}|end=}}
 
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Revision as of 11:39, 21 September 2019

H.M.S. Vestal (1865)
Builder: Pembroke Royal Dockyard[1]
Launched: 16 Nov, 1865[2]
Sold: 1884[3]
H.M.S. Vestal was one of six Amazon Class wooden screw sloops completed for the Royal Navy.

Construction & Service

In November 1865, the steam storeship H.M.S. Fox loaded four boilers, condensers and related machinery at Woolwich to convey to Pembroke for installation in Vestal.[4]

Vestal vacated the #3 dock in Keyham Steamyard so it could be taken up by the steam screwship Lord Clyde.[5]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 55.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 55.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 55.
  4. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 11 November, 1865; p. 12.
  5. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 5 September, 1866; p. 7.
  6. The Navy List. (July, 1869). p. 221.
  7. The Navy List. (July, 1876). p. 182.
  8. The Navy List. (October, 1878). p. 249.


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