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|Ship image=[[Image:HMS Nymphe (1888).jpg|300px]]

|Ship caption=A photograph of HMS ''Nymphe'', visually identical to the ''Beagle'' class

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{{Infobox Ship Class Overview

|Name=''Beagle'' -class sloopssloop

|Builders=

|Operators={{navy|UK}}

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|Header caption=

|Ship class=

|Ship type=Screw Steelsteel [[sloop-of-war|Sloopsloop]]

|Ship displacement=1170 tons<ref name=PB1/>

|Ship length={{convert|195|ft|m|abbr=on}} [[length between perpendiculars|pp]]<ref name=RW/>

|Ship beam={{convert|30|ft|m|abbr=on}} <ref name=BC2>{{cite web|url=http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/cruisers.htm|title=HMS ''Basilisk'' at Battleships-Cruisers website|accessdate=2008-08-31}}</ref>

|Ship draught={{convert|13|ft|m|abbr=on}} <ref name=BC2/>

|Ship depth=

|Ship sail plan=[[Barquentine]] rig

|Ship decks=

|Ship power={{convert|2000 [[horsepower]]|ihp|kW|lk=on}}<ref name=PB2RW/>

|Ship propulsion=Three-cylinder horizontal triple-expansion steam engine<br>Twin screws

|Ship speed={{convert|14.5|kn|km/h|abbr=on}}<ref name=RW/>

|Ship range=

|Ship endurance={{convert|3000|nmi|km|abbr=on}} at {{convert|10|kn|km/h|abbr=on}}<ref name=RW/>

|Ship complement=138 <ref name=RW/>

|Ship armament='''As built''':<br>

Eight8 x [[BL 5 inch gun Mk I - V|BL {{convert|5|in|mm|sing=on|sigfig=4}} 50-pounder guns]]<br>

'''After 1900''':<br>

Eight8 x [[Quickquick-firing gun]]s

|Ship armour=Protective deck of {{convert|1|in|cm|abbr=on}}-{{convertto|1.5+1/2|in|cm|abbr=on}} steel over the machinery and boilers<ref name=RW/>

|Ship notes=

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==Design==

''Beagle'' and ''Basilisk'' were constructed of copper-sheathed steel to a design by [[William Henry White|William White]], the Royal Navy [[Director of Naval Construction]]. They were powered by a twin-screw three-cylinder horizontal triple -expansion steam engine developing {{convert|2000|hpihp|kW|lk=on}} and carried a [[barquentine]] sail rig.<ref name=RW>{{cite book |title=''The Sail and Steam Navy List, 1815-1889'' |last=Winfield |first=Rif |coauthors=Lyon, David |year=2003 |publisher=Chatham Publishing |isbn=978-1861760326}}</ref> They were essentially the same design as the preceding [[Nymphe class sloop|''Nymphe'' class]], but built of steel rather than of composite wood-and-steel.<ref name=RW/>

==Operational Useuse==

''Beagle'' and ''Basilisk'' were constructed of copper-sheathed steel to a design by [[William Henry White|William White]], the Royal Navy [[Director of Naval Construction]]. They were powered by a twin-screw three-cylinder horizontal triple expansion steam engine developing {{convert|2000|hp}} and carried a [[barquentine]] sail rig.<ref name=RW>{{cite book |title=''The Sail and Steam Navy List, 1815-1889'' |last=Winfield |first=Rif |coauthors=Lyon, David |year=2003 |publisher=Chatham Publishing |isbn=978-1861760326}}</ref> They were essentially the same design as the preceding [[Nymphe class sloop|''Nymphe'' class]], but built of steel rather than of composite wood-and-steel.<ref name=RW/>

In common with other designs of [[Royal Navy]] [[sloop-of-war|sloop]] of the period, the ''Beagle'' class were not intended or designed to fight a modern fleet action; they were intended to patrol [[British Empire|Britain's extensive maritime empire]], and this is how they were employed. ''Beagle'' conducted three foreign commissions between 1890 and 1900, at least two of which were on the [[South Atlantic Station]].<ref name=PB1>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/B/00499.html|title=HMS ''Beagle'' at Naval Database website|accessdate=2008-08-31}}</ref> She was refitted in 1900, during which her {{convert|5|in|mm|adj=on}} [[Breech-loading weapon|breech-loading]] guns were replaced with [[quick-firing gun]]s. ''Basilisk'' also spent all or part of her career on the [[South Atlantic Station]]. <ref name=PB2>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/B/00480.html|title=HMS ''Basilisk'' at Naval Database website|accessdate=2008-08-31}}</ref>

==Operational Use==

In common with other designs of [[Royal Navy]] [[sloop-of-war|sloop]] of the period, the ''Beagle'' class were not intended or designed to fight a modern fleet action; they were intended to patrol [[British Empire|Britain's extensive maritime empire]], and this is how they were employed. ''Beagle'' conducted three foreign commissions between 1890 and 1900, at least two of which were on the [[South Atlantic Station]].<ref name=PB1>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/B/00499.html|title=HMS ''Beagle'' at Naval Database website|accessdate=2008-08-31}}</ref> She was refitted in 1900, during which her {{convert|5|in|mm|adj=on}} [[Breech-loading weapon|breech-loading]] guns were replaced with [[quick-firing gun]]s. ''Basilisk'' also spent all or part of her career on the [[South Atlantic Station]]. <ref name=PB2>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/B/00480.html|title=HMS ''Basilisk'' at Naval Database website|accessdate=2008-08-31}}</ref>

== Ships ==

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"

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

|-

|{{HMS|Beagle|1889|62}}||[[HMNB Portsmouth|Portsmouth Royal Dockyard]]|||28 February 1889|||Sold tofor BUbreaking on 11 July 1905<ref name=PB1/><ref name=RW/><ref name=BC/>

|-

|{{HMS|Basilisk|1889|62}}||[[Sheerness]] [[Dockyard|Royal Dockyard]]|||6 April 1889|||Became coal hulk ''C7'' and sold as ''Maggie Grech'' in 1905<ref name=RW/><ref name=PB2/><ref name=BC/>

|}