HMS Daphne (1866)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Daphne.
HMS Daphne 's sister-ship, HMS Dryad
History
UK
Name: HMS Daphne
Launched: 23 October 1866
Fate: Sold for breaking up, 1882
General characteristics
Class & type: Amazon, Sloop
Tons burthen: 1081 bm
Length: 187 ft
Propulsion: Screw
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament: Gundeck: 4 guns
Notes: 150 men

HMS Daphne was an Amazon-class sloop, of the Royal Navy, built at the Pembroke Dockyard and launched on 23 October 1866. It spent its entire career east of Suez – in the East Indies and particularly on anti-slavery operations on the East coast of Africa.

It was commissioned at Plymouth on 12 June 1867 by Cdr George Lydiard Sulivan and came back to finally pay off in 1879.

"Each of her commissions lasted four years, and her ever recurring appearance at so many successive slave running seasons earned a tradition of wrath at the mention of her name among the merchants in that line of business", wrote Admiral Ballard in July 1938.[1]

References

  1. Pembroke Dockyard and the Old Navy: A Bicentennial History By Lieutenant Commander Lawrie Phillips


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