HMS Thetis (1871)
HMS Thetis was a Briton-class wooden screw corvette built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s.
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| Name: | HMS Thetis |
| Builder: | Devonport Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 29 August 1870 |
| Launched: | 26 October 1871 |
| Completed: | 1 February 1873 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, November 1887 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type: | Briton-class wooden screw corvette |
| Displacement: | 1,854 long tons (1,884 t) |
| Tons burthen: | 1,322 bm |
| Length: | 220 ft (67.1 m) (p/p) |
| Beam: | 36 ft (11.0 m) |
| Draught: | 16 ft 6 in (5.0 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 21 ft 6 in (6.6 m) |
| Installed power: | 2,275 ihp (1,696 kW) |
| Propulsion: |
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| Sail plan: | Ship rig |
| Speed: | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Complement: | 220 |
| Armament: | 14 × 6.3-inch 64-pounder rifled muzzle-loading guns |
She was present at the Bay of Pisagua when Chilean troops captured the port on 2 November 1879, during the Tarapaca Campaign.[1]
Chilean Navy ships, Covadonga, Almirante Cochrane, Angamos, Amazonas, and HMS Thetis in Pisagua, 1879
Notes
Footnotes
- "Covadonga, Cochrane, Thetis, Angamos y Amazonas en Pisagua 1879". archivo.mmn.cl.
Bibliography
- Ballard, G. A. (1938). "British Corvettes of 1875: The Larger Ram-Bowed Type". Mariner's Mirror. Cambridge, UK: Society for Nautical Research. 24 (January): 81–94.
- Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. Greenwich, UK: 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.
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