HMS Daphne (1866)
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.jpg) HMS Daphne 's sister-ship, HMS Dryad
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Daphne |
| Launched | 23 October 1866 |
| Fate | Sold for breaking up, 1882 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Amazon, Sloop |
| Tons burthen | 1081 bm |
| Length | 187 ft |
| Propulsion | Screw |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
| Armament | Gundeck: 4 guns |
| Notes | 150 men |
HMS Daphne was an Amazon-class sloop, of the Royal Navy. She was in service from 1866 to 1879.
History
[edit]Daphne was built at the Pembroke Dockyard and launched on 23 October 1866. she spent her entire career east of Suez – in the East Indies and particularly on anti-slavery operations on the East coast of Africa.
She was commissioned at Plymouth on 12 June 1867 by Cdr George Lydiard Sulivan.[citation needed]. In October 1872, Daphne ran aground in the Mergui Archipelago. She was refloated and taken to Bombay, India for repairs.[1][2] Daphne came back to finally pay off in 1879.
- "Each of her commissions lasted four years, and her ever recurring appearance at so many successive slave running seasons earned a tradition of wrath at the mention of her name among the merchants in that line of business"- George Alexander Ballard in July 1938.[3]
References
[edit]Publications
[edit]- 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.
- "Mid-Victorian RN vessel HMS Daphne". pdavis.nl. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
- http://www.ajbrown.me.uk/IndividualStories/WGOrchard/HMS_Daphne.htm
- Dhow chasing in Zanzibar waters and on the eastern coast of Africa. Narrative of five years' experiences in the suppression of the slave trade by Sulivan, George Lydiard. Publication date: 1873. Reprint: Cambridge Library Collection, 2011.
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