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==Design==

Built to a design by [[William Henry White]], [[Director of Naval Construction]],<ref name="Times 1">''[[The Times]] (London)'', Wednesday, [[May 11]], [[1887]], p.9</ref>, ''Nymphe'' and her sister ships were constructed of an iron frame sheathed with teak and copper (hence 'composite'), and powered by both sails and a steam engine delivering 1,400 [[horsepower]] through twin screws.

==Employment==

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

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|{{HMS|Nymphe|1888|6}}||[[HMNB Portsmouth|Portsmouth Royal Dockyard]]|||[[1 May]] [[1888]]|||Shore training ship at [[Sheerness]] from Aug 1914, later renamed ''Wildfire''<ref name=PB/> and sold in 1920<ref name=BC/>

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|{{HMS|Buzzard|1887|6}}||[[Sheerness]] Royal [[Dockyard]]|||[[10 May]] [[1887]]|||Renamed [[HMS President (shore establishment)|HMS ''President'']] on [[1 April]] 1911 and sold on [[6 September]] [[1921]]<ref name=BC/>

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|{{HMS|Daphne|1888|6}}||[[Sheerness]] Royal [[Dockyard]]|||[[29 May]] [[1888]]||Sold 1904<ref name=BC/>

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|{{HMS|Swallow|1885|6}}||[[Sheerness]] Royal [[Dockyard]]|||[[27 October]] [[1885]] |||Sold 1904<ref name=BC/>

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== References ==

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