Osprey Class Sloop (1876)
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Five Osprey class screw sloops were completed for the Royal Navy in the late 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 |
Osprey | Sheerness Royal Dockyard | 5 Aug, 1876 | Sold 1890 | ||
Cormorant | Chatham Royal Dockyard | 12 Sep, 1877 | Broken up 1949 | ||
Pelican | Devonport Royal Dockyard | 26 Apr, 1877 | Sold 1901 | ||
Wild Swan | Napier, Glasgow | 28 Jan, 1876 | Sold 1920 | ||
Penguin | Napier, Glasgow | 25 Mar, 1876 | Sold 1924 |
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).
Osprey Class Composite Screw Sloop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Osprey | Cormorant | Pelican | Wild Swan | Penguin |