HMS Diamond (1874)

Summary

HMS Diamond was an Amethyst-class corvette in service 1874–89.

HMS Diamond
History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Diamond
NamesakeDiamond
BuilderSheerness Dockyard
Cost£76,796
Laid down1873
Launched26 September 1874
CompletedJuly 1875
FateSold for scrap, August 1889
General characteristics (as built)
Class and typeAmethyst-class wooden screw corvette
Displacement1,934 long tons (1,965 t)
Tons burthen1,405 bm
Length220 ft (67.1 m) (p/p)
Beam37 ft (11.3 m)
Draught18 ft (5.5 m)
Installed power2,140 ihp (1,600 kW)
Propulsion
Sail planShip rig
Speed12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Rangeapproximately 2,500 nmi (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement225
Armament
HMS Diamond in Sydney in 1877

History edit

Diamond was built for the Royal Navy at Sheerness Dockyard and launched on 26 September 1874.[1]

In 1875 she commissioned service for the East Indies Station, later being transferred to the China Station.[1] In 1876, she was driven ashore on the coast of Zanzibar. She was refloated.[2] She returned to England in 1879 and was refitted and rearmed. After refit she commissioned service on the Australia Station in October 1881.[1] She left the Australia Station in August 1888 and returned to England. She returned to Chatham and was paid off in 1889. She was sold in August 1889.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d Bastock, p. 72
  2. ^ "The Egyptians and Zanzibar Territory". Freeman's Journal. Dublin. 11 February 1876.

Bibliography edit

  • Ballard, G. A. (1937). "British Corvettes of 1875: The Last Wooden class". Mariner's Mirror. 23 (October). Cambridge, UK: Society for Nautical Research: 435–45.
  • Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 0-86777-348-0
  • Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
  • Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
  • Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.

External links edit

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