The Amazon class was a class of six screw sloops of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy between 1865 and 1866. Designed by Edward Reed, the Royal...
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British screw schooner built 1885 Amazon-class frigate, four classes of frigate of the British Royal Navy Amazon-class sloop, of the British Royal Navy French...
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HMS Daphne (1866) (category Amazon-class sloops)
HMS Daphne was an Amazon-class sloop, of the Royal Navy. She was in service from 1866 to 1879. Daphne was built at the Pembroke Dockyard and launched on...
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HMS Nymphe (1866) (category Amazon-class sloops)
HMS Nymphe was an Amazon-class sloop, of the Royal Navy, built at the Deptford Dockyard and launched on 24 November 1866. She served in the East Indies...
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The Cormorant class were built as a class of 16-gun ship sloops for the Royal Navy, although they were re-rated as 18-gun ships soon after completion...
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The Eclipse class was a class of seven 6-gun wooden screw sloops built for the Royal Navy between 1867 and 1870. They were re-armed and re-classified as...
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HMS Amazon (1865) was an Amazon-class wooden screw sloop launched in 1865 and sunk on 9 July 1866 in a collision in the English Channel. HMS Amazon (1908), launched...
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These were the last sloops constructed for the Royal Navy to retain all-wooden construction; their successors, the Amazon class, incorporated iron cross...
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Sixth-rate, corvette, and sloop classes of the Royal Navy. During the Age of Sail, warships were divided into ranks or classes. The English Royal Navy adopted...
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HMS Dryad (1866) (category Amazon-class sloops)
HMS Dryad was a 4-gun Amazon-class screw sloop, launched at Devonport in 1866. She served on the East Indies and North American Stations, taking part in...
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wooden corvettes in the Navy, they had clipper bows (like the earlier Amazon Class sloops), while the last two had frigate sterns. All were initially ship-rigged...
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HMS Ibis Bittern-class sloop: HMS Enchantress Grimsby-class sloop: HMS Aberdeen Banff-class sloops: HMS Hartland & Walney Shoreham-class sloop: HMS Weston...
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Flower-class corvette Castle-class corvette 24-class sloop Bridgewater-class sloop[page needed] Hastings-class sloop Banff-class sloop Shoreham-class sloop[page needed]...
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(196 mm) of armour. The following warships were armed with the gun : Amazon-class sloops in commission from 1865 HMS Bellerophon commissioned in 1866 HMS Vixen...
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Birkenhead Euphrates Euphrates-class troopship For Royal Navy. 24 November United Kingdom Deptford Dockyard Nymphe Amazon-class sloop For Royal Navy. 27 November...
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Kingdom Pembroke Dockyard Amazon Amazon-class sloop For Royal Navy. 23 May United States Philadelphia Navy Yard Swatara Screw sloop For United States Navy...
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Tribal class, frigates were ordered and built as sloops to carry out similar duties to the immediate post-war improved Black Swan-class sloops and Loch-class...
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HMS Daphne (1866), an Amazon-class steam sloop HMS Daphne (1888), a Nymphe-class composite screw sloop HMS Daphne (1915), an Acacia-class sweeping sloop Hired armed...
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shipwrecks: 21 May 1874 Ship State Description HMS Niobe Royal Navy The Amazon-class sloop was wrecked in fog off Miquelon Island with the loss of one life....
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HMS Gannet (1878) (category Doterel-class sloops)
HMS Gannet is a Royal Navy Doterel-class screw sloop-of-war launched on 31 August 1878. It became a training ship in the Thames in 1903, and was then...
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sloop HMS Minotaur (1793) 74-gun ship of the line with a colourful history Note: dates in brackets represent date of design not launch) Amazon-class frigate...
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presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. HMS Dryad Royal Navy The Amazon-class sloop struck rocks off Downderry, Cornwall and was beached in Whitsand Bay...
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HMS Wellington (U65) (category Grimsby-class sloops)
HMS Wellington (launched Devonport, 1934) is a Grimsby-class sloop, formerly of the Royal Navy. During the Second World War, she served as a convoy escort...
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or as "sloops" if they could not. Type 11 : Diesel powered anti-submarine frigate based on hull of Type 41 / 61. Not built. Type 12 Whitby-class : Steam...
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Thames and sank at Quebec City, Canada. HMS Daphne Royal Navy The Amazon-class sloop ran aground. She was taken in to Bombay, India for repairs. Delta...
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HMS Tiger 1849 – second class, enlarged version of sloop Sphinx Magicienne class 1849 – second class, enlarged version of sloop Sphinx HMS Magicienne 1849...
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HMS Fly (1776) (category Swan-class ship-sloops)
HMS Fly was a Swan-class ship sloop of the Royal Navy, launched on 14 September 1776. She performed mainly convoy escort duties during the French Revolutionary...
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HMS Amazon was a 38-gun fifth-rate Amazon-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars under several...
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HMS Vestal (1865) was an Amazon-class wooden screw sloop launched in 1865 and sold in 1884. HMS Vestal (1900) was a Condor-class sloop launched in 1900 and...
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HMS President (1918) (category Anchusa-class sloops)
convoy escort sloops, which evolved into modern anti-submarine frigates. HMS President was built as an Anchusa-type Flower-class sloop. These were built...
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