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{{Short description|Type of British Royal Navy ship, 1865–1866}}
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|Ship power=300 [[horsepower]]<ref name=BC/>
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*2 × [[RML 7 inch 6.5 ton gun|7-inch (6½-ton) muzzle-loading rifled guns]]
*''As converted'' (''Dryad, Nymphe'' & ''Vestal''):▼
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▲* Two 64-pounder muzzle loading rifled guns
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The '''''Amazon''
▲The '''''Amazon''-class''' was a class of six [[screw sloop|screw-sloops]] of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy between 1865 and 1866.
==Construction==
===Design===
Designed by [[Edward James Reed|Edward Reed]],<ref name=RW>{{winfield}}</ref>
▲Designed by [[Edward James Reed|Edward Reed]]<ref name=RW>{{winfield}}</ref>, the Royal Navy [[Director of Naval Construction]], the hull was of wooden construction, and they were equipped with a [[ram bow]].<ref name=RW/>
===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/>
===Sail
All the ships of the class were built with a [[barque]] rig.<ref name=RW/>
===Armament===
The class was designed with two 7-inch (6½-ton) muzzle
▲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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|{{HMS|Amazon|1865|
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|{{HMS|Vestal|1865|
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|{{HMS|Niobe|1866|
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|{{HMS|Dryad|1866|
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|{{HMS|Daphne|1866|
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|{{HMS|Nymphe|1866|
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{{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}}
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