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== Ships ==
=== '''The ''Camelion'' class''' ===
The first two vessels were ordered on [[3 April]] [[1854]], although neither was laid down for several years. Another three were ordered on [[1 April]] [[1857]] and a further three on [[27 March]] [[1858]].
* {{HMS|Camelion|1860|6}}, built by [[Deptford Royal Dockyard]], laid down [[8 November]] [[1858]], launched [[23 February]][[ 1860]] and completed [[30 July]] [[1861]]. Sold for breaking up 1883.
* {{HMS|Pelican|1860|6}}, built by [[Pembroke Royal Dockyard]], laid down [[16 June]] [[1859]], launched [[19 July]][[ 1860]] and completed [[25 September]] [[1861]]. Sold in February 1867 as mercantile ''Hawk'', then resold to the [[Portuguese Navy]] and renamed ''Infanta Dom Henrique''.
* {{HMS|Rinaldo|1860|6}}, built by [[Portsmouth Royal Dockyard]], laid down [[1 March]] [[1858]], launched [[26 March]][[ 1860]] and completed [[8 June]] [[1861]]. Sold for breaking up April 1884.
* {{HMS|Zebra|1860|6}}, built by [[Deptford Royal Dockyard]], laid down [[4 July]] [[1859]], launched [[13 November]][[ 1860]] and completed [[23 May]] [[1861]]. Sold in the Far East for breaking up [[20 August]] [[1873]].
* {{HMS|Perseus|1861|6}}, built by [[Pembroke Royal Dockyard]], laid down [[20 July]] [[1860]], launched [[21 August]][[ 1861]] and completed September 1862. Became training ship in 1886, renamed {{HMS|Defiance II|1904|6}} in March 1904, sold for breaking up [[26 June]] [[1931]].
* {{HMS|Chanticleer|1861|6}}, built by [[Portsmouth Royal Dockyard]], laid down [[2 February]] [[1860]], launched [[9 February]][[ 1861]] and completed December 1861. Sold for breaking up [[23 January]] [[1875]].
* {{HMS|Reindeer|1866|6}}, built by [[Chatham Royal Dockyard]], laid down [[1 May]] [[1860]] (work was suspended in 1862 but subsequently restarted in May 1863), launched [[29 March]] [[1866]], and commissioned [[October]] 1866. Sold for breaking up [[28 August]] [[1873]].
* {{HMS|Rattler|1862|6}}, built by [[Deptford Royal Dockyard]], laid down [[28 August]] [[1860]], launched [[18 March]][[ 1862]] and completed July 1862. Wrecked off Japan [[24 September]] [[1868]].
==Cancelled ships==
Four further ships of this class were ordered from the [[Royal Dockyard]]s on [[5 March]] [[1860]] and another four on [[25 March]] [[1861]]. The first four comprised ''Harlequin'' at [[Portsmouth]] (laid down [[13 February]] [[1861]]), ''Tees'' at [[Chatham, Medway|Chatham]] (laid down February 1861), ''Sappho'' at [[Deptford]] (laid down [[1 May]] [[1861]]) and ''Trent'' at [[Pembroke]] (laid down [[3 September]] [[1861]]). The last four comprised ''Circassian'' at [[Deptford]] (laid down [[5 May]] [[1862]]), ''Diligence'' at [[Chatham, Medway|Chatham]] (also laid down 1861), ''Imogene'' at [[Portsmouth]] and ''Success'' at [[Pembroke]]; the final two were never laid down.
* Five of these vessels were cancelled on [[12 December]] [[1863]] - the ''Tees'', ''Sappho'', ''Diligence'', ''Imogene'' and ''Success''.
* A further vessel - the ''Harlequin'' - was cancelled [[16 December]] [[1864]].
* HMS ''Circassian'' and HMS ''Trent'', both laid down as ''Camelion'' class sloops, were completed as the [[ironclad]] sloops {{HMS|Enterprise|1864|6}} and {{HMS|Research|1863|6}} respectively.
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