The Pacific Squadron. Trying rate of sailings. HMS Sappho is shown at the bottom left |
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| Career | |
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| Name: | HMS Sappho |
| Builder: | Wigram & Sons, Blackwall |
| Launched: | 20 November 1873 |
| Fate: | Sold in December 1887. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Fantome-class sloop |
| Displacement: | 940 tons |
| Length: | 160 ft (49 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Draught: | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
| Propulsion: |
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| Sail plan: | Barque |
| Range: | 1,000 nmi (1,900 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h) |
| Complement: | 125 |
| Armament: |
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HMS Sappho was a Fantome-class sloop, of the Royal Navy, built by Wigram & Sons, Blackwall and launched on 20 November 1873.[2]
She commenced service on the Australia Station in December 1874.[2]
In August 1877 under Captain Noel F S Digby[3] she participated in the search for the missing crew and passengers of Queen Bee that had run aground on Farewell Spit, New Zealand. She successfully found the missing third mate whom she took to Nelson. While at Nelson, her crew participated in a number of fund raising concerts for those shipwreaked.[4]
She left the Australia Station in August 1878 and returned to England.
Sappho commenced service on the Pacific Station in 1881 until 1886 whereupon she returned to England and was paid off.[2]
She was sold in December 1887.[2]
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