HMS Boadicea (1875)

HMS Boadicea by Henry J. Morgan
Career (United Kingdom)
Name: HMS Bacchante
Builder: Portsmouth Naval Dockyard
Launched: 19 October 1876
Completed: 1878
Fate: Sold, 1897
General characteristics
Class and type:Bacchante-class corvette
Displacement:4,070 long tons (4,135 t)
Length:280 ft (85 m)
Beam:45.5 ft (13.9 m)
Draught:23.75 ft (7.2 m)
Installed power:5,420 hp (4,042 kW)
Propulsion:1 shaft, 1 Horizontal return connecting rod-steam engine
Coal-fired Normand boilers
Sail plan:Ship rigged
Speed:15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement:375, later increased to 420
Armament:14 × 7-inch rifled muzzle-loading guns
2 × Whitehead torpedo carriages

HMS Boadicea was a Bacchante-class corvette launched in 1875.

Robert Falcon Scott served on her early in his career.