Amazon-class sloop
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The Amazon class was a class of six screw sloops of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy between 1865 and 1866.
Construction
Design
Designed by Edward Reed,[1] the Royal Navy Director of Naval Construction, they were equipped with a ram bow.[1] The hull was of wooden construction, but they were the first class of sloops to incorporate a form of composite construction; they had iron cross beams while retaining wooden framing.[1]
Propulsion
Propulsion was provided by a two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine by Ravenhill, Salkeld & Company driving a single Script error: No such module "convert". screw. Vestal and Nymphe were fitted with three-cylinder Maudslay engines.[1]
Sail plan
All the ships of the class were built with a barque rig.[1]
Armament
The class was designed with two 7-inch (6½-ton) muzzle-loading rifled guns mounted on slides on centre-line pivots, and two 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns on broadside trucks. Dryad, Nymphe and Vestal were rearmed in the early 1870s with an armament of nine 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns, four each side and a centre-line pivot mount at the bow.[1]
Ships
| Name | Ship Builder | Launched | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". | Pembroke Dockyard | 1865 | Sunk in collision with SS Osprey, off Start Point, English Channel 10 July 1866[2] |
| Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". | Pembroke Dockyard | 1865 | Sold to Castle for breaking in December 1884[1] |
| Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". | Devonport Dockyard | 1866 | Wrecked off Cape Blanc on Miquelon Island, off the Atlantic Coast of Newfoundland and Labrador 21 May 1874[2] |
| Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". | Devonport Dockyard | 1866 | Sold in September 1885 and broken up in April 1886[1] |
| Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". | Pembroke Dockyard | 1866 | Sold for breaking on 7 November 1882[1] |
| Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". | Devonport Dockyard | 1866 | Sold for breaking in December 1884[1] |
Notes
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