HMS Sapphire (1874)

Career
Name: HMS Sapphire
Builder: HMNB Devonport
Launched: 24 September 1874
Fate: Sold on 24 September 1892 to G. Cohen.
General characteristics
Type: corvette

HMS Sapphire was an Amethyst-class corvette, of the Royal Navy, built at the Devonport Dockyard and launched on 24 September 1874.[1]

She commenced service on the Australia Station in August 1875.[1] She left the Australia Station in July 1879 and returned to England and was refitted and rearmed. After refit she commissioned for the China Station in 1883 until 1890. She returned to Plymouth and was paid off.[1]

Fate

She was sold on 24 September 1892 to G. Cohen.[1]

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d Bastock, p.73.

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