HMS Opal (1875)
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HMS Opal.
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| History |
 United Kingdom
|
| Name: |
HMS Opal |
| Builder: |
William Doxford & Sons Ltd, Sunderland |
| Laid down: |
13 October 1873 |
| Launched: |
9 March 1875 |
| Fate: |
Sold for breaking at Sheerness, August 1892 |
| General characteristics [1] |
| Class & type: |
Emerald-class corvette |
| Displacement: |
2,120 tons |
| Tons burthen: |
1,864 bm |
| Length: |
220 ft (67 m) pp |
| Beam: |
40 ft (12 m) |
| Draught: |
- 16 ft 6 in (5.03 m) forwards
- 18 ft (5.5 m) aft
|
| Depth of hold: |
21 ft 6 in (6.55 m) |
| Installed power: |
|
| Propulsion: |
- 2-cylinder horizontal compound expansion steam engine
- 6 × cylindrical boilers
- Single hoisting screw
|
| Sail plan: |
Full-rigged ship (barque from the 1880s) |
| Complement: |
232 |
| Armament: |
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HMS Opal was an Emerald-class corvette of the Royal Navy, laid down as Magicienne by William Doxford & Sons Ltd, Sunderland and launched on 9 March 1875.[2]
She was completed with an armament of 14 muzzle-loading 64-pounder rifled guns (2 as bow and stern chasers mounted on centre-line swivelling slides, and 12 on broadside slide mountings) and initially commenced service on the Pacific Station, and while on passage in 1876 hit a rock in the Strait of Magellan. She was damaged and repairs were undertaken at Esquimalt.[2] She returned to England in 1880 for refit, in which her broadside armament was reduced by 2 guns and she was re-rigged as a barque. She sailed for service on the Cape of Good Hope and West Africa Station in 1883, before commencing service on the Australia Station in 1885.[2] She returned to England in 1890 and was placed into reserve. She was sold for breaking up at Sheerness in August 1892.[2]
Citations
- ↑ Winfield (2004), p.288
- 1 2 3 4 Bastock, p.87.
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