Amethyst Class Corvette (1873)
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Five Amethyst class wooden screw corvettes were built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1870s.
| Overview of 5 vessels | |||||
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| Citations for this data available on individual ship pages | |||||
| Name | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
| Amethyst | Devonport Royal Dockyard | 19 Apr, 1873 | Sold 1887 | ||
| Diamond | Sheerness Royal Dockyard | 26 Aug, 1874 | Sold 1889 | ||
| Encounter | Sheerness Royal Dockyard | 1 Jan, 1873 | Sold 1888 | ||
| Modeste | Devonport Royal Dockyard | 23 May, 1873 | Sold 1888 | ||
| Sapphire | Devonport Royal Dockyard | 24 Sep, 1874 | Sold 1892 | ||
Design & Construction
Performance
Armament
See Also
Footnotes
Bibliography
- 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).
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