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Revision as of 10:05, 18 January 2020

H.M.S. Vixen (1865)
Builder: Lungley, Deptford[1]
Laid down: 1864[2]
Launched: 18 Nov, 1865[3]
Commissioned: 1 October, 1866[4]
Broken up: 1896[5]
H.M.S. Vixen was one of three Vixen Class armoured gunboats completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

From 1869 through 1892, the Navy List shows her at Bermuda, but with no officers assigned to her.

Vixen was commissioned on 1 October 1866. On 15 November she took on powder at the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, consisting of 70 cases of 1.25 cwt each. On 16 November, she received a final inspection from Commodore Edmonstone, Superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard.[6]

Captains

The Navy List never shows any officers assigned to between 1869 and 1892.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 111.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 111.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 111.
  4. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 17 Oct. 1866, p. 10.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 111.
  6. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 16 Nov. 1866, p. 7.
  7. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 1 Oct. 1866, p. 10.


Vixen Class Armoured Gunboat
  Viper Vixen Waterwitch  
<– Britomart Class Small Fry (UK) H.M.S. Staunch –>
<– Britomart Class Gunboats (UK) H.M.S. Staunch –>
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