HMS_Modeste_(1873)
For other ships with the same name, see HMS Modeste.
HMS Modeste was a Amethyst-class corvette built for the Royal Navy in the early 1870s. She served in the Perak campaign in the 1870s.
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Modeste, Yokohama, Japan in 1877 | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Modeste |
Builder | Devonport Dockyard |
Cost | Approximately £77,000 |
Laid down | 27 November 1871 |
Launched | 23 May 1873 |
Completed | January 1874 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 8 January 1888 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Amethyst-class wooden screw corvette |
Displacement | 1,934 long tons (1,965 t) |
Tons burthen | 1,405 bm |
Length | 220 ft (67.1 m) (p/p) |
Beam | 37 ft (11.3 m) |
Draught | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
Installed power | 2,068 ihp (1,542 kW) |
Propulsion |
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Sail plan | Ship rig |
Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Range | approximately 2,500 nmi (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 225 |
Armament | 14 × 64-pounder 71-cwt rifled muzzle-loading (RML) guns |
Close
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- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
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- Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.