HMS Amphion (1883)

	Amphion moored at Coal Harbour, Vancouver, while serving on the Pacific Station in British Columbia, Canada, 1900.
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Amphion
Ordered	1880
Builder	Pembroke dockyard
Laid down	25 April 1881
Launched	13 October 1883
Commissioned	5 July 1887
Decommissioned	25 May 1904
Fate	Sold 1906
General characteristics
Class and type	Leander-class second-class partially protected cruiser
Displacement	4,300 tons (4,400 tonnes) load.
Tons burthen	3,750 tons (B.O.M.).
Length	300 ft (91 m) between perpendiculars.; 315 ft 96.01 m) overall.;
Beam	46 ft (14 m).
Draught	20 ft 8 in (6.30 m) aft, 19 ft 6 in (5.94 m) forward; with 950 tons (970 tonnes) of coal and complete with stores and provisions.;
Propulsion	Sails and screw. Two shafts. Two cylinder horizontal direct acting compound engines, 12 cylindrical boilers, 5,500 IHP.
Speed	16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) designed ; 17-18 knots after funnels raised ;
Range	11,000 nmi (20,000 km; 13,000 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph).; 725 tons coal normal, 1000 tons maximum = c. 6,000 nmi at economical speed.;
Complement	(1885): 275
Armament	(1885):; 10 × 6-inch (152 mm) breechloading guns; 8 1-inch (25.4 mm) Nordenfelt guns; 2 5-barrel and 2 2-barrel 0.45-in machineguns; 4 above water torpedo dischargers.;
Armour	1.5 in (40mm) steel armoured deck (with sloped sides) over 165 ft.; 1.5 in (40mm) gun shields.;
Notes	Carried 2 second class torpedo boats.; Carried 7-pounder and 9-pounder boat guns and field guns.;

HMS Amphion was a second-class cruiser of the Leander class which served with the Royal Navy. She was built at Pembroke Dockyard, being laid down in 1881, launched in 1883, and completed in financial year 1885–86, and then lay in ordinary at Devonport. She was commissioned for the 1887 and 1888 annual manoeuvres. She was recommissioned in December 1888. served in the Pacific until 1890, in the Mediterranean from 1890 to 1895, in ordinary in Devonport from 1895 to 1897 and in the Pacific once more from 1897 to 1904, having a refit in 1900.

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