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Royal naval Corvettes. List of Royal Naval Corvettes from the early Screw corvettes of the 19th Century to the Flower and Castle Class Corvettes of World War Two. |
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NAME | LAUNCHED | FATE |
BAROSSA OR JASON Wooden Screw Corvettes |
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HMS Jason | 10th November 1859 | Scrapped 1877 |
HMS Barossa | 10th March 1860 | Scrapped 1877 |
HMS Orestes | 18th August 1860 | Scrapped 1866 |
HMS Orpheus | 23rd June 1860 | Wrecked 7th February 1863 |
HMS Rattlesnake | 9th July 1861 | Broken up in 1880/1881 |
HMS Wolverine | 29th August 1863 | Sold in 1905 |
JUNO Wooden Screw Corvettes |
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HMS Juno | 28th November 1867 | Scrapped 1887 |
HMS Thalia | 14th July 1869 | Scrapped 1920 |
Eclipse Wooden Screw Corvettes |
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HMS Eclipse | 14th November 1867 | Scrapped 1921 |
TThe sixth ?ECLIPSE? was a 12-gun screw sloop, launched at Sheerness in 1867. When laid down she had been called ?Sappho.? She was of 1273 tons, 350 horse-power, and 10 knots speed. Her length, beam, and draught were 212ft., 36ft., and 11ft. In 1882 the ?Eclipse,? commanded by Captain Edmund St. John Garthforth, was engaged in the Egyptian War. In August 1882 the ?Eclipse? contributed to a Naval Brigade which was disembarked at Suez. The inhabitants understood that the town was in danger of being burnt, but the Naval Brigade, composed mostly of marines, occupied the town, and the Egyptian troops fled. The ?Eclipse? was lent to the War Office in 1888, taken over again in 1892, and ended her career as a Naval ordnance mine depot at Plymouth. |
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HMS Blanche | 17th August 1867 | Sold 1886 |
HMS Danae | 21st May 1867 | Scrapped 1906 |
HMS Dido | 23rd October 1869 | Scrapped 1922 |
The fourth ?Dido? was a 12-gun screw corvette, launched at Portsmouth in 1869. She was of 1760 tons, 2520 horse-power, and 13.6 knots speed. Her length, beam, and draught were 212ft., 36ft., and 16ft. In 1871 the ?Dido,? commanded by Captain William Cox Chapman, an officer of great tact and good temper, was instrumental in settling without bloodshed a dispute among the Kings of New Calabar, Bonny, and Ekrika, on the Niger, and in procuring safety for British trade in that river. In 1873 the ?Dido? was similarly successful in settling a number of difficulties which had arisen in Fiji between the natives and the white settlers. In 1874 the ?Dido? was present at the formal transfer of the Fiji Islands to the British flag, and was so unfortunate as to introduce measles among the native population, which resulted in a lamentable loss of life. In 1876 the ?Dido? returned to England after a five-years commission full of valuable though unostentatious work. In 1881 the ?Dido,? commanded by Captain Compton Edward Domvile, took part in the first Boer War. After the battle of Laing?s Nek, the ?Dido? contributed to a Naval Brigade of 50 men and two field guns, which went to the front under Lieutenant Henry Ogle of the ?Dido.? This brigade shared in the disaster at Majuba on February 27th , where the ?Dido?s? lost 3 killed and wounded 3, and the ?Boadicea?s? lost 11 killed, 6 mortally wounded, and 10 severely wounded. Captain Compton Domvile then proceeded to the front to take charge of the Naval Brigade, but no further took place before a peace was concluded. This vessel?s name was subsequently changed to ?Actaeon,? and she was merged into the Torpedo School at Sheerness, after some service as a mine depot on the Forth. |
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HMS Sirius | 24th April 1868 | Sold 1885 |
HMS Spartan | 24th November 1868 | Sold in 1882 |
HMS Tenedos | 13th May 1870 | Sold in 1887 |
BRITON Class Wooden Screw Corvettes View Class |
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HMS Briton | 6th November 1869 | Scrapped 1887 / 1890 |
HMS Druid | 13th march 1869 | Sold 1886 |
HMS Thetis | 26th October 1871 | Sold 1887 |
VOLAGE Class Iron Screw Corvettes View Class |
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HMS Volage | 27th February 1869 | Sold 1904 |
HMS Active | 13th march 1869 | Sold 1906 |
HMS Rover | 12th August 1874 | Sold 1893 |
AMETHYST Wooden Screw Corvettes |
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HMS Ameythyst | 19th April 1873 | Sold 1887 |
HMS Diamond | 26th August 1874 | Sold 1889 |
The twelfth ?DIAMOND? was a 14-gun screw corvette launched at Sheerness in 1874. She was of 1970 tons, 2150 horse-power, and 13.7 knots speed. Her length, beam, and draught were 220ft., 37ft., and 18ft. In 1889 the ?Diamond? was sold. |
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HMS Encounter | 1st January 1873 | Sold 1888 |
The third ?Encounter? was a 14-gun screw corvette, launched at Sheerness in 1873. She was of 1970 tons, 2130 horse-power, and 13 knots speed. Her length, beam, and draught were 220ft., 37ft., and 17ft. In 1873 the ?Encounter,? commanded by Captain Richard Bradshaw, took part in the Ashantee War. In November the ?Encounter? contributed to a Naval Brigade under Captain the Hon.Edmund Fremantle, which marched inland to the relief of Abrakrampa, then sorely pressed by the Ashantees. The enemy were seized with a panic and retired hastily, abandoning almost all their stores. On December 26th the ?Encounter,? bombarded a village on Alboaddi Point, and then sent her boats under Lieutenant Alfred Loveridge in to burn the place. In 1875 the ?Encounter,? commanded by Captain Richard Bradshaw, was one of 7 ships which co-operated in a punitive expedition up the river Congo under Commodore Sir William Hewett with his broad pennant in ?Active.? It was undertaken on account of the looting of the British schooner ?Geraldine? and the murder of four of her crew. On August 31st the boats from the ?Encounter? and two other ships were towed to the entrance of Chango Creek. One hundred and fifty marines were landed under Captain Bradshaw and succeeded in burning three villages, although they were fired at by natives concealed in the bush. All the villages on the north bank were destroyed, and further punishment was inflicted in Luculla Creek and other places. The labours of the expedition were most arduous, some of the creeks being overgrown with luxuriant vegetation which had to be cut away to admit of an advance, and the country generally was very difficult. Captain Richard Bradshaw was mentioned in despatches as having rendered conspicuous service, and the loss suffered was but 1 killed and 6 wounded. In 1888 the ?Encounter? was sold. |
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HMS Modeste | 23rd May 1873 | Sold 1888 |
HMS Saphire | 24th September 1874 | Sold 1892 |
BACCHANTE CLASS iron Screw Corvettes View Class |
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HMS Bacchante | 19th October 1876 | Sold 1897 |
HMS Boadicea | 16th October 1875 | Sold 1905 |
HMS Euryalus | 31st January 1877 | Sold 1897 |
COMUS CLASS Steel Corvettes View Class |
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HMS Comus | 3rd April 1878 | Sold 1904 |
HMS Carysfort | 26th September 1878 | Sold 1899 |
HMS Champion | 1st July 1878 | Sold 1931 |
HMS Cleopatra | 1st August 1878 | Sold 1899 |
HMS Conquest | 28th October 1878 | Sold 1904 |
HMS Curacoa | 18th April 1878 | Sold 1899 |
HMS Constance | 9th June 1880 | Sold 1899 |
HMS Canada | 26th August 1881 | Sold 1897 |
HMS Cordelia | 25th October 1881 | Sold 1904 |
SATELLITE CLASS Corvettes |
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HMS Satellite | 13th August 1881 | Sold 1904 |
HMS Caroline | 25th November 1882 | Sold 1929 |
HMS Heroine | 3rd December 1881 | Sold 1902 |
HMS Hyacinth | 20th December 1881 | Sold 1902 |
HMS Rapid | 21st March 1883 | Sold 1948 |
HMS Pylades | 5th November 1884 | Sold 1906 |
HMS Royalist | 7th March 1883 | Transferred to Ireland, 1923 |
CALYPSO CLASS Steel Corvettes View Class |
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HMS Calypso | 7th June 1883 | Sold 1922 |
HMS Calliope | 24th July 1884 | Sold 1951 |
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Royal Canadian Navy Corvettes |
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Modified Flower Class Corvettes Built in Canadian Dockyards |
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Flower Class Corvettes Torpedoed and Sunk |
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Briton Class - Volage Class - Bacchante Class - Comus Class - Calypso Class - Flower Class - Castle Class |
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