HMS_Psyche_(1862)

HMS <i>Psyche</i> (1862)

HMS Psyche (1862)

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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Psyche.

HMS Psyche was a wooden Psyche-class paddle despatch vessel built to an 1860 design by Isaac Watts. She was ordered from Pembroke Dockyard in and launched on 29 March 1862, having cost c. £43,000 to build.

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She was at Suez for the opening ceremonies of the canal in 1869.[1]

She was wrecked on 15 December 1870 off Catania, Italy, while carrying a party including George Howard Darwin to observe the solar eclipse from Sicily. Her wreck was blown up in February 1871.

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    https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/HN3100080601/ILN?u=wes_ttda&sid=bookmark-ILN&xid=3bcd7311 Opening of the Suez Canal Date: Saturday, 11 December 1869. Publication: The Illustrated London News. Volume: 55 , Issue: 1570
  • Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
  • Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.


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