HMS Boadicea (1875)

History
HMS Boadicea by Henry J. Morgan
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Bacchante
Builder:	Portsmouth Naval Dockyard
Launched:	19 October 1876
Completed:	1878
Fate:	Sold, 1897
General characteristics
Class & 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.

Bacchante-class corvettes

Boadicea Bacchante Euryalus

Preceded by: Emerald class Followed by: Comus class List of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy

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