HMS Sapphire (1874)

HMS Sapphire was an Amethyst-class corvette built for the Royal Navy at Devonport Dockyard and launched on 24 September 1874.

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Sapphire.
HMS Sapphire at anchor.
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Sapphire
NamesakeSapphire
BuilderDevonport Dockyard
Cost£78,297
Laid down17 June 1873
Launched24 September 1874
CompletedAugust 1875
FateSold for scrap, 24 September 1892
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 power2,364 ihp (1,763 kW)
Propulsion
  • 1 shaft
  • 1 × 2-cylinder compound expansion steam engine
  • 6 cylindrical boilers
Sail planShip rig
Speed13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Rangeapproximately 2,500 nmi (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement225
Armament
  • 12 × 64-pounder 71-cwt rifled muzzle-loading (RML) guns
  • 2 × 64-pounder 64-cwt RML guns

She commenced service on the Australia Station in August 1875. She left the Australia Station in July 1879 and returned to England and was refitted and rearmed. After refit she commissioned for the China Station in 1883 until 1890. She returned to Plymouth and was paid off.

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