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{{Short description|Type of British Royal Navy ship, 1865–1866}}

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|Ship caption=HMS ''Dryad'' at anchor, with sails airing

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|Name=''Amazon''-class sloops

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|Builders=*Pembroke Dockyard

|Operators={{navy|UK}}

*Devonport Dockyard

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|Class before=

|Class after=

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|Built range=[[1865]] - [[1866]]1865–1866

|In commission range=[[1865]] - [[1885]]1865–1885

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|Total ships laid up=4

|Total ships lost=2

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|Total ships preserved=

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|Ship type=[[Screw sloop]]

|Ship displacement=1574 tons

|Ship length= {{convert|187 |ft|m|abbr=on}}

|Ship beam= {{convert|36 |ft|m|abbr=on}}

|Ship draught={{convert|17|ft|m|abbr=on}}<ref name=BC>{{cite web|url=http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/cruisers.htm|title=Cruisers at Battleships-Cruisers website|accessdate=2008-09-17}}</ref>

|Ship draught=17 ft

|Ship draft=

|Ship propulsionpower=300 [[horsepower]]<ref name=BC/>

|Ship propulsion=*Single screw

*Two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine

|Ship sail plan=[[Barque]]

|Ship speed=

|Ship range=

|Ship complement=150<ref name=BC/>

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

*2 × [[RML 7 inch 6.5 ton gun|7-inch (6½-ton) muzzle-loading rifled guns]]

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*2 × 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns

|Ship armament=4 guns

*''As converted'' (''Dryad, Nymphe'' & ''Vestal''):

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*9 × 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns<ref name=RW>{{winfield}}</ref>

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The '''''Amazon-class'' class''' was a [[Royal Navy]] class of sevensix [[screw sloop|screw-sloops]]s of wooden construction. built for the Royal Navy between 1865 and 1866.

==Construction==

*[[HMS Amazon (1865)|HMS ''Amazon'']] ([[1865]]) - sunk in collision with SS ''Osprey'', off [[Start Point, Devon|Start Point]], [[English Channel]] [[10 July]] [[1866]].

*[[HMS Vestal (1865)|HMS ''Vestal'']] ([[1865]]) - sold [[1884]].

*[[HMS Niobe (1866)|HMS ''Niobe'']] ([[1866]]) - wrecked on [[Saint Pierre and Miquelon|Miquelon Island]], off the Atlantic Coast of [[Newfoundland]] [[21 May]] [[1874]].

*[[HMS Dryad (1866)|HMS ''Dryad'']] ([[1866]]) - sold [[1886]].

*[[HMS Daphne (1866)|HMS ''Daphne'']] ([[1866]]) - sold [[1882]].

*[[HMS Nymphe (1866)|HMS ''Nymph'']] ([[1866]]) - sold [[1884]].

==External links=Design===

Designed by [[Edward James Reed|Edward Reed]],<ref name=RW>{{winfield}}</ref> the Royal Navy [[Director of Naval Construction]], they were equipped with a [[ram bow]].<ref name=RW/> The hull was of wooden construction, but they were the first class of sloops to incorporate a form of composite construction; they had iron cross beams while retaining wooden framing.<ref name=RW/>

*[http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/cruisers.htm Battleships-Cruisers.co.uk]

==References=Propulsion===

Propulsion was provided by a two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine by Ravenhill, Salkeld & Company driving a single {{convert|15|ft|m|abbr=on}} screw. ''Vestal'' and ''Nymphe'' were fitted with three-cylinder Maudslay engines.<ref name=RW/>

{{Reflist}}

*{{Colledge}}

===Sail plan===

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All the ships of the class were built with a [[barque]] rig.<ref name=RW/>

[[Category:Royal Navy sloops]]

[[Category:Ships of the Royal Navy|Sloops]]

[[Category:Sloops of the United Kingdom]]

===Armament===

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The class was designed with two 7-inch (6½-ton) muzzle-loading rifled guns mounted on slides on centre-line pivots, and two 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns on broadside trucks. ''Dryad'', ''Nymphe'' and ''Vestal'' were rearmed in the early 1870s with an armament of nine 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns, four each side and a centre-line pivot mount at the bow.<ref name=RW>{{winfield}}</ref>

==Ships==

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!Name||Ship Builder||Launched||Fate

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*[[|{{HMS |Amazon (|1865)|HMS2}}||Pembroke ''Amazon'']] ([[Dockyard||1865]]) - sunk||Sunk in collision with SS ''Osprey'', off [[Start Point, Devon|Start Point]], [[English Channel]] [[10 July]] [[1866]].<ref name=BC/>

|-

|{{HMS|Vestal|1865|2}}||Pembroke Dockyard ||1865||Sold to Castle for breaking in December 1884<ref name=RW/>

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*[[|{{HMS |Niobe (|1866)|HMS2}}||Devonport ''Niobe'']]Dockyard ([[||1866]])||Wrecked off -Cape wreckedBlanc on [[Saint Pierre and Miquelon|Miquelon Island]], off the Atlantic Coast of [[Newfoundland and Labrador]] [[21 May]] [[1874]].<ref name=BC/>

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|{{HMS|Dryad|1866|2}}||Devonport Dockyard ||1866||Sold in September 1885 and broken up in April 1886<ref name=RW/>

|-

|{{HMS|Daphne|1866|2}}||Pembroke Dockyard ||1866||Sold for breaking on 7 November 1882<ref name=RW/>

|-

|{{HMS|Nymphe|1866|2}}||Devonport Dockyard ||1866||Sold for breaking in December 1884<ref name=RW/>

|}

==Notes==

{{Reflist|2}}

==Bibliography==

*{{cite journal|last=Ballard|first=G. A.|year=1938|title=British Sloops of 1875: The Wooden Ram-Bowed Type|journal=Mariner's Mirror|publisher=Society for Nautical Research|___location=Cambridge, UK|volume=24|pages=302–17|issue=July}}

*{{cite book|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905|editor1-last=Chesneau|editor1-first=Roger|editor2-last=Kolesnik|editor2-first=Eugene M.|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|___location=Greenwich, UK|year=1979|isbn=0-8317-0302-4|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/conwaysallworlds0000unse_l2e2}}

*{{Cite Colledge2006}}

* {{winfield}}

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