Difference between revisions of "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	Robert Napier & Sons, Glasgow		28 Jan, 1876		Sold 1920
Penguin	Robert Napier & Sons, Glasgow		25 Mar, 1876		Sold 1924

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

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