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|Ship image=HMS Bacchante (1876) photo.jpg
|Ship caption=HMS ''Bacchante''
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{{Infobox ship class overview
|Name=*''Bacchante''-class corvette
*(later ''Bacchante''-class cruiser)
|Builders=Portsmouth and Chatham Dockyards
|Operators={{navy|United Kingdom}}
|Class before={{sclass|Emerald|corvette|4}}
|Class after={{sclass|Comus|corvette|4}}
|Subclasses=
|Cost=
|Built range=1875–1877 
|In service range=
|In commission range=1877–1905
|Total ships building=
|Total ships planned=4
|Total ships completed=3
|Total ships cancelled=1
|Total ships active=
|Total ships laid up=
|Total ships lost=
|Total ships retired=3
|Total ships preserved=
}}
{{Infobox ship characteristics
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|Header caption=
|Ship class=*Iron screw corvettes
*(cruisers from 1877)
|Ship displacement=3,913-4,070 tons<ref name=BC/>
|Ship length={{convert|280|ft|m|abbr=on}}
|Ship beam={{convert|45|ft|m|abbr=on}}
|Ship draught={{convert|23|ft|m|abbr=on}}<ref name=RW/>
|Ship hold depth=
|Ship power=
|Ship sail plan=[[Fully rigged ship|Ship-rigged]]
|Ship speed={{convert|15|kn|lk=in}}<ref name=RW/>
|Ship propulsion=* Three-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine
* 10 × cylindrical boilers
* 1 × {{convert|21|ft|m|abbr=on}} diameter screw<ref name=RW/>
|Ship complement=375 (later 420)<ref name=RW/>
|Ship armament=
*''As built:''
* 14 × [[RML 7 inch 90 cwt gun|7-inch/112-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns]]
* 2 × 6.3-inch/64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns (not ''Bacchante'')
*''Later:''
* 12 × [[BL 6 inch gun Mk I - VI|6-inch Mk II breech-loading guns]]
* 4 × [[BL 5 inch gun Mk I - V|5-inch breech-loading guns]]
* Machine guns<ref name=RW/>
|Ship notes=
}}
|}
The '''''Bacchante'' class''' was a group of three iron screw [[corvette]]s in service with the [[Royal Navy]] from the late 1870s. 

==Design and construction==
The ships were designed by [[Nathaniel Barnaby]] in 1872, with the first two ordered from [[Portsmouth Royal Dockyard]] in 1872 and ''Euryalus'' from [[Chatham Dockyard|Chatham Royal Dockyard]] in 1873. These were the last ships to be built of iron for the Royal Navy, with [[teak]] planking. Although similar, the three ships differed in design and appearance, and thus did not technically form a single class. A fourth ship (''Highflyer'') was ordered in 1878 from Portsmouth Dockyard, but was cancelled in 1879. In 1887, like all the remaining corvettes, they were redesignated ''cruisers'' by the Royal Navy.

==Ships==
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!Name||Ship builder|||Launched|||Fate
|-
|{{HMS|Boadicea|1875|2}}||Portsmouth Dockyard ||16 October 1875<ref name=BC>{{cite web|url=http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/bacchante_class.htm|title=''Bacchante''-class at Battleships-Cruisers website|accessdate=2008-11-26}}</ref> || Sold 6 January 1905<ref name=RW>{{winfield}}</ref> 
|-
|{{HMS|Bacchante|1876|2}}||Portsmouth Dockyard  ||19 October 1876<ref name=BC/>||Sold 10 May 1897<ref name=RW/>
|- 
|{{HMS|Euryalus|1877|2}}||Chatham Dockyard  ||31 January 1877<ref name=BC/>||Sold 10 May 1897<ref name=RW/>
|-
|''Highflyer''||colspan=3 align=center|Cancelled 1879
|} 

==References==
{{Commonscat-inline|Bacchante class corvette}}
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{{Bacchante class corvettes}}

[[Category:Corvette classes]]
[[Category:Bacchante-class corvettes| ]]
[[Category:Victorian-era corvettes of the United Kingdom| Bacchante]]