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|Ship image=[[Image:HMS Nymphe (1888).jpg|300px]]

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|Name=''Beagle''-class sloop

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|Ship complement=138<ref name=RW/>

|Ship armament=*''As built'':

*8 × [[BL 5 inch gun Mk I - V|BL {{convert|5|in|mm|singadj=on|sigfig=4}} 50-pounder guns]]

*''After 1900'':

*8 × [[QF 4.7 -inch Gun Mk I–IVI – IV naval gun|quick firing 4.7-inch guns]]

|Ship armour=Protective deck of {{convert|1|to|1+1/2|in|cm|abbr=on}} steel over the machinery and boilers<ref name=RW/>

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The '''''Beagle'' class''' was a two-ship [[ship class|class]] of 8-gun screw steel [[sloop-of-war|sloop]]s <ref name=BC>{{cite web|url=http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/naval_sloops_.htm|title=Naval Sloops at battleships-cruisers.co.uk|accessdate=2008-08-30}}</ref> built for the [[Royal Navy]] in 1889.

==Design==

''Beagle'' and ''Basilisk'' were constructed of copper-sheathed steel to a design by [[William Henry White|William White]], the Royal Navy [[Director of Naval Construction]]. They were powered by a twin-screw three-cylinder horizontal triple-expansion steam engine developing {{convert|2000|ihp|kW|lk=in}} and carried a [[barquentine]] sail rig.<ref name=RW>Winfield (2004) p.277</ref> They were essentially the same design as the preceding [[Nymphe class sloop|''Nymphe'' class]], but built of steel rather than of composite wood-and-steel.<ref name=RW/>

==Operational use==

In common with other designs of [[Royal Navy]] [[sloop-of-war|sloop]] of the period, the ''Beagle'' class were not intended or designed to fight a modern fleet action; they were intended to patrol [[British Empire|Britain's extensive maritime empire]], and this is how they were employed. ''Beagle'' conducted three foreign commissions between 1890 and 1900, at least two of which were on the [[South Atlantic Station]].<ref name=PB1>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/B/00499.html|title=HMS ''Beagle'' at Naval Database website|accessdate=2008-08-31}}</ref> She was refitted in 1900, during which her {{convert|5|in|mm|adj=on}} [[Breech-loading weapon|breech-loading]] guns were replaced with [[quick-firing gun]]s. ''Basilisk'' also spent all or part of her career on the [[South Atlantic Station]].<ref name=PB2>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/B/00480.html|title=HMS ''Basilisk'' at Naval Database website|accessdate=2008-08-31| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20080830051905/http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/B/00480.html| archivedate= 30 August 2008 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurlurl-status= nolive}}</ref>

== Ships ==

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|{{HMS|Beagle|1889|2}}||[[HMNB Portsmouth|Portsmouth Dockyard]]||28 February 1889||Sold for breaking on 11 July 1905<ref name=PB1/><ref name=RW/><ref name=BC/>

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|{{HMS|Basilisk|1889|2}}||[[Sheerness Dockyard]]||6 April 1889||Became coal hulk ''C7'' and sold as ''Maggie Grech'' in 1905<ref name=RW/><ref name=BC/><ref name=PB2/>

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