H.M.S. Amazon (1865)

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H.M.S. Amazon (1865)
Builder: Pembroke Royal Dockyard[1]
Launched: 23 May, 1865[2]
Collision: 10 July, 1866[3]
H.M.S. Amazon was one of six Amazon Class wooden screw sloops completed for the Royal Navy.

Construction & Service

Amazon, along with Template:UK-1Pallas participated in the first-ever joint celebration of American independence to occur in an English port on 4 July 1866 in Portsmouth Harbour alongside the American steam screwship Augusta.[4]

Amazon left Spithead a "perfectly new ship" capable of nearly 12.5 knots for Nova Scotia to take up service on the North American Station and was lost in a collision with the private screw steamer Osprey in the English Channel.[5]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 55.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 55.
  3. "The Loss of the Amazon." The Times (London, England), 13 July, 1866; p. 6.
  4. "The Loss of the Amazon." The Times (London, England), 5 July, 1866; p. 12.
  5. "The Loss of the Amazon." The Times (London, England), 13 July, 1866; p. 6.


Amazon Class Wooden Screw Sloop
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