HMS Modeste (1873)

History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Modeste
Builder:	Devonport Dockyard
Cost:	Approximately £77,000
Laid down:	27 November 1871
Launched:	23 May 1873
Completed:	January 1874
Fate:	Sold for scrap, 8 January 1888
General characteristics (as built)
Class & type:	Amethyst-class wooden screw corvette
Tonnage:	1,405 bm
Displacement:	1,934 long tons (1,965 t)
Length:	220 ft (67.1 m) (p/p)
Beam:	37 ft (11.3 m)
Draught:	18 ft (5.5 m)
Installed power:	2,068 ihp (1,542 kW)
Propulsion:	1 shaft 1 × 2-cylinder compound expansion steam engine 6 cylindrical boilers
Sail plan:	Ship rig
Speed:	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Range:	approximately 2,500 nmi (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	225
Armament:	14 × 64-pounder 71-cwt rifled muzzle-loading (RML) guns

HMS Modeste was a Amethyst-class corvette built for the Royal Navy in the early 1870s.

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Bibliography

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