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{{Short description|Type of British Royal Navy ship, 1865–1866}}
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|Ship image=[[Image:HMS Dryad (1866).jpg|300px]]
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|Ship image=[[Image:HMS Dryad (1866).jpg|300px]]
|Ship caption=HMS ''Dryad'' at anchor, with sails airing
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|Name='''''Amazon''-class sloops'''
|Builders=*Pembroke Dockyard<br>
*Devonport Dockyard
|Operators={{navy|UKUnited Kingdom}}
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|Ship power=300 [[horsepower]]<ref name=BC/>
|Ship propulsion=*Single screw
*Two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine
*Single screw
|Ship sail plan=[[Barque]]
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|Ship complement=150<ref name=BC/>
|Ship armament=*''As built'':
*2 × [[RML 7 inch 6.5 ton gun|7-inch (6½-ton) muzzle-loading rifled guns]]
'''As built''':
*2 Two× [[RML 7 inch 6.5 ton gun|764-inchpounder (6½muzzle-ton) muzzle loading rifled guns]]
'*''As converted''' (''Dryad, Nymphe'' & ''Vestal''):
*9 Two× 64-pounder muzzle -loading rifled guns<ref name=RW>{{winfield}}</ref>
'''As converted''' (''Dryad, Nymphe'' & ''Vestal''):
* Nine 64-pounder muzzle loading rifled guns<ref name=RW>{{winfield}}</ref>
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==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/>
 
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===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>
 
==Ships==
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|{{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|2}}||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|2}}||Devonport Dockyard ||1866||Sold in September 1885 and broken up in April 1886<ref name=RW/>
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|{{HMS|Daphne|1866|2}}||Pembroke Dockyard ||1866||Sold for breaking on 7 November 1882<ref name=RW/>
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|{{HMS|Nymphe|1866|2}}||Devonport Dockyard ||1866||Sold for breaking in December 1884<ref name=RW/>
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==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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