HMS Thetis (1871)
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Thetis |
| Namesake | 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 |
HMS Thetis was a Briton-class wooden screw corvette built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s.
History
[edit]Thetis was driven ashore in 1874 whilst on duty in the East Indies. It was reported that she would be repaired at Bombay, India or Trincomalee, Ceylon.[1] On 10 March 1879, she was damaged by fire at Keyham, Devon.[2] The fire was caused by improper storage of materials on board which spontaneously combusted. Damage amounted to £4,000 worth of stores lost and £1,000 worth to the ship.[3] She was present at the Bay of Pisagua when Chilean troops captured the port on 2 November 1879, during the Tarapaca Campaign.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Shipping Disasters". Liverpool Mercury. No. 8378. Liverpool. 25 November 1874.
- ^ "An English Man-of-War on Fire". Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough. No. 3659. Middlesbrough. 11 March 1879.
- ^ "The Fire on Board H.M.S. Thetis". Aberdeen Journal. No. 7509. Aberdeen. 14 March 1879.
- ^ "Covadonga, Cochrane, Thetis, Angamos y Amazonas en Pisagua 1879". archivo.mmn.cl.
Bibliography
[edit]- Ballard, G. A. (1938). "British Corvettes of 1875: The Larger Ram-Bowed Type". Mariner's Mirror. 24 (January). Cambridge, UK: Society for Nautical Research: 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. OCLC 52620555.
External links
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Media related to HMS Thetis (1871) at Wikimedia Commons- Thetis at William Loney website
- Thetis at the Naval Database website
