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{{Short description|Type of British Royal Navy ship, 1865–1866}}
{|{{Infobox Ship Begin}}▼
{{Use British English|date=February 2018}}
{{Infobox Ship Image▼
|Ship image=[[Image:HMS Dryad (1866).jpg|300px]]▼
|Ship caption=HMS ''Dryad'' at anchor, with sails airing
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{{Infobox
|Name=''Amazon''-class sloops
|Builders=*Pembroke Dockyard
*Devonport Dockyard |Operators={{navy|
|Class before=
|Class after=
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|Total ships preserved=
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|Ship draft=
|Ship power=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 armament=*''As built'':
*2 × 64-pounder muzzle *''As converted'' (''Dryad, Nymphe'' & ''Vestal''):
*9 × 64-pounder muzzle |Ship notes=
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==Construction==
===Design===
Designed by [[Edward James Reed|Edward Reed]],<ref name=RW>{{winfield}}</ref>
===Propulsion===
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===Armament===
The class was designed with two 7-inch (6½-ton) muzzle
==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 [[
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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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==Bibliography==
*{{cite journal|last=Ballard|first=G. A.|
*{{cite book|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships
*{{
* {{winfield}}
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[[Category:Victorian-era sloops of the United Kingdom| Amazon]]
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