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 27 October 1885.[1]

Service history

Swallow was commissioned by commander Edward Fitzmaurice Inglefield in 1899, to serve on the South America Station. She was in Montevideo in late February 1900, and visited the Falkland Islands the following month.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Naval sloops
  2. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36076). London. 27 February 1900. p. 6.


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