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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'''

|Builders=*Pembroke Dockyard<br>
*Devonport Dockyard

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|Built range=1865 - 18661865–1866

|In commission range=1865 - 18851865–1885

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

|Ship propulsion=*Single screw
*Two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine<br>Single screw

|Ship sail plan=[[Barque]]

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|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 Two× 64-pounder muzzle -loading rifled guns

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

As built:

*9 Two× 764-inchpounder (6½muzzle-ton) muzzle loading rifled guns<ref name=RW>{{winfield}}</ref>

* Two 64-pounder muzzle loading rifled guns

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

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

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

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>, 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/>

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/>

===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 Planplan===

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 -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>

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|62}}||Pembroke Dockyard||1865||Sunk in collision with SS ''Osprey'', off [[Start Point, Devon|Start Point]], [[English Channel]] 10 July 1866<ref name=BC/>

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|{{HMS|Vestal|1865|62}}||Pembroke Dockyard ||1865||Sold to Castle for breaking in December 1884<ref name=RW/>

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|{{HMS|Niobe|1866|62}}||Devonport Dockyard ||1866||Wrecked off Cape Blanc 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|62}}||Devonport Dockyard ||1866||Sold in September 1885 and broken up in April 1886<ref name=RW/>

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|{{HMS|Daphne|1866|62}}||Pembroke Dockyard ||1866||Sold for breaking on 7 November 1882<ref name=RW/>

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|{{HMS|Nymphe|1866|62}}||Devonport Dockyard ||1866||Sold for breaking in December 1884<ref name=RW/>

|}

==ReferencesNotes==

{{Reflist|2}}

*{{Colledge}}

==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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