Bacchante-class corvette

	HMS Bacchante
Class overview
Name	Bacchante-class corvette; (later Bacchante-class cruiser);
Builders	Portsmouth and Chatham Dockyards
Operators	Royal Navy
Preceded by	Emerald class
Succeeded by	Comus class
Built	1875–1877
In commission	1877–1905
Planned	4
Completed	3
Cancelled	1
Retired	3
General characteristics
Class and type	Iron screw corvettes; (cruisers from 1877);
Displacement	3,913-4,070 tons
Length	280 ft (85 m)
Beam	45 ft (14 m)
Draught	23 ft (7.0 m)
Propulsion	Three-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine; 10 × cylindrical boilers; 1 × 21 ft (6.4 m) diameter screw;
Sail plan	Ship-rigged
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	375 (later 420)
Armament	As built:; 14 × 7-inch/112-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns; 2 × 6.3-inch/64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns (not Bacchante); Later:; 12 × 6-inch Mk II breech-loading guns; 4 × 5-inch breech-loading guns; Machine guns;

The Bacchante class was a group of three iron screw corvettes in service with the Royal Navy from the late 1870s.

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