Difference between revisions of "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
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

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).

Amethyst Class Corvette

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