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{{Infobox Ship Class Overview

|Name='''''Amazon'' class sloops'''

|Builders=

|Builders=Pembroke Dockyard<br>Devonport Dockyard

|Operators={{navy|UK}}

|Class before=

|Class after=

|Subclasses=

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

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

|Total ships building=

|Total ships planned=

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|Total ships cancelled=

|Total ships active=

|Total ships laid up=4

|Total ships lost=2

|Total ships retired=

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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=Two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine<br>Single screw

|Ship speed=

|Ship range=

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

|Ship sensors=

|Ship EW=

|Ship armament=4 guns<table>

As built:

* Two 7-inch (6½-ton) muzzle loading rifled guns

* 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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|Ship armour=

|Ship armor=

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The '''''Amazon''-class''' was a [[Royal Navy]] class of seven [[screw sloop|screw-sloops]] of wooden construction.

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

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|'''Name'''||'''Launched'''&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;|||'''Fate'''

==Construction==

===Design===

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 Plan===

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>

==Ships==

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

|-

|[[{{HMS |Amazon (|1865)|HMS6}}||Pembroke ''Amazon'']] &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Dockyard||([[1865]])&nbsp;&nbsp; |||Sunk in collision with SS ''Osprey'', off [[Start Point, Devon|Start Point]], [[English Channel]] [[10 July]] [[1866]].<ref name=BC/>

|-

|[[{{HMS |Vestal (|1865)|HMS6}}||Pembroke ''Vestal'']]Dockyard ||([[1865]]) |||Sold [[to Castle for breaking in December 1884]].<ref name=RW/>

|-

|[[{{HMS |Niobe (|1866)|HMS6}}||Devonport ''Niobe'']]Dockyard ||([[1866]]) |||Wrecked off Cape Blanc on [[Saint Pierre and Miquelon|Miquelon Island]], off the Atlantic Coast of [[Newfoundland]] [[21 May]] [[1874]].<ref name=BC/>

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|[[{{HMS |Dryad (|1866)|HMS6}}||Devonport ''Dryad'']]Dockyard ||([[1866]]) |||Sold [[in September and broken up in April 1886]].<ref name=RW/>

|-

|[[{{HMS |Daphne (|1866)|HMS6}}||Pembroke ''Daphne'']]Dockyard ||([[1866]]) |||Sold [[for breaking on 7 November 1882]].<ref name=RW/>

|-

|[[{{HMS |Nymphe (|1866)|HMS6}}||Devonport ''Nymph'']]Dockyard ||([[1866]]) |||Sold [[for breaking in December 1884]].<ref name=RW/>

|}

==External links==

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

==References==

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