HMS Clio (1858)

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HMS Clio was a wooden warship, used for most of her life as a school ship.

Clio was built at Sheerness as a 200 foot (61 m) 22-gun Pearl class corvette and launched in 1858. In 1877 she became a school ship, stationed on the Menai Strait at Bangor, and had 260 pupils. She was sold for scrap and broken up in 1919.

[edit] See also

• HMS Conway (school ship)
• Training Ships and Nautical Schools, 1700–2000

[edit] External links

• Photograph of HMS Clio
• Unarmoured wooden screw ships