HMS Swallow (1885)

HMS Swallow was a Nymphe-class composite screw sloop and the twenty-seventh ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name. Developed and constructed for the Royal Navy on a design by William Henry White, Director of Naval Construction, she was launched at Sheerness Dockyard on 27th October 1885.^[1]

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↑ Naval sloops

Nymphe-class sloops

Nymphe Buzzard Daphne Swallow

Preceded by: Satellite class Followed by: Beagle class List of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy

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