HMS Diamond (1874)

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HMS Diamond
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Diamond
Namesake	Diamond
Builder	Sheerness Dockyard
Cost	£76,796
Laid down	1873
Launched	26 September 1874
Completed	July 1875
Fate	Sold for scrap, August 1889
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	2,140 ihp (1,600 kW)
Propulsion	1 shaft 1 × 2-cylinder compound expansion steam engine 6 cylindrical boilers
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	12 × 64-pounder 71 cwt rifled muzzle-loading (RML) guns 2 × 64-pounder 64 cwt RML guns

HMS Diamond was an Amethyst-class corvette in service 1874–89.

History

Diamond was built for the Royal Navy at Sheerness Dockyard and launched on 26 September 1874.^[1]

In 1875 she commissioned service for the East Indies Station, later being transferred to the China Station.^[1] In 1876, she was driven ashore on the coast of Zanzibar. She was refloated.^[2] She returned to England in 1879 and was refitted and rearmed. After refit she commissioned service on the Australia Station in October 1881.^[1] She left the Australia Station in August 1888 and returned to England. She returned to Chatham and was paid off in 1889. She was sold in August 1889.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Bastock, p. 72
^ "The Egyptians and Zanzibar Territory". Freeman's Journal. Dublin. 11 February 1876.

Bibliography

Ballard, G. A. (1937). "British Corvettes of 1875: The Last Wooden class". Mariner's Mirror. 23 (October). Cambridge, UK: Society for Nautical Research: 435–45.
Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 0-86777-348-0
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.
Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
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.

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v t e Amethyst-class corvettes
Amethyst Diamond Encounter Modeste Sapphire
Preceded by: Volage class Followed by: Rover
List of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1876
Shipwrecks	3 Jan: HMS Warspite 3 Feb: Surprise 17 Feb: Halifax 28 Feb: Caprice 28 Feb: Nettle 3 Mar: Carrier Dove 12 Mar: Laurdal 15 Mar: Frederick 22 Apr: Dunraven 14 Jun: Geltwood 15 Jul: Acme 20 Jul: Mohawk 13 Sep: Vigilant 1 Dec: Anna Paulowna Nov: City of Manchester 1 Dec: Georgette Unk: Lammermuir Unk: Delaware Unk: Un'yō
Other incidents	Jan: HMS Arab 14 Jul: HMS Thunderer 13 Sep: Snaefell 6 Nov: HMS Dryad 7 Nov: HMS Tamar 29 Dec: Bessemer Unk: HMS Diamond
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