HMS Modeste (1873)
For other ships with the same name, see HMS Modeste.
History | |
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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 |
Tonnage: | 1,405 bm |
Displacement: | 1,934 long tons (1,965 t) |
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 |
HMS Modeste was a Amethyst-class corvette built for the Royal Navy in the early 1870s.
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Bibliography
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- Winfield, Rif & Lyon, David (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.
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