HMS_Sapphire_(1874)

HMS <i>Sapphire</i> (1874)

HMS Sapphire (1874)

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

HMS Sapphire was an Amethyst-class corvette built for the Royal Navy at Devonport Dockyard and launched on 24 September 1874.[1]

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She commenced service on the Australia Station in August 1875.[1] She left the Australia Station in July 1879 and returned to England and was refitted and rearmed. After refit she commissioned for the China Station in 1883 until 1890. She returned to Plymouth and was paid off.[1]

Looking forward from the poop deck, circa. 1878

Fate

She was sold on 24 September 1892 to G. Cohen.[1]

See also

Notes

    Footnotes

    1. [1]
      Bastock, p. 73

    Bibliography

    • Ballard, G. A. (1937). "British Corvettes of 1875: The Last Wooden class". Mariner's Mirror. 23 (October). Cambridge, UK: Society for Nautical Research: 435–45.
    • Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 0-86777-348-0
    • Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
    • 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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