HMS Cleopatra (1878)
HMS Cleopatra was a Royal Navy Comus-class screw corvette built in 1878.
Cleopatra saluting the Brazilian flag at Rio de Janeiro in 1890, the formal recognition of the Republic of Brazil by Great Britain | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Cleopatra |
| Builder | John Elder & Co Govan |
| Yard number | 209 |
| Launched | 1 August 1878 |
| Name | HMS Defiance III |
| Renamed | 1922 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap to S Castle, Millbay, July 1931 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Comus-class corvette |
| Displacement | 2,380 long tons (2,420 t) |
| Length | 225 ft (69 m) |
| Beam | 44 ft 6 in (13.6 m) |
| Draught | 19 ft 6 in (6 m) |
| Propulsion | Sail, engines by Humphrys, Tennant & Co. |
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