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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Charybdis.

HMS Charybdis at under refit at Esquimalt, 1870
History
Royal Navy Ensign
NameHMS Charybdis
Ordered3 April 1854
BuilderChatham Dockyard
Laid down29 March 1856
Launched1 June 1859
CompletedBy 19 November 1860
Decommissioned1880
FateSold at Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1884
General characteristics
Class and typeTemplate:Sclass-
Displacement2,231 long tons (2,267 t)[1]
Tons burthen1462 bm[1]
Length
  • 225 ft 3 in (68.66 m) oa
  • 200 ft (61 m) (gundeck)
Beam40 ft 4 in (12.29 m)
Draught
  • 17 ft 4 in (5.28 m) (forward)
  • 19 ft 10 in (6.05 m) (aft)
Depth of hold23 ft 11 in (7.29 m)
Installed power
Propulsion
  • 2-cyl. horizontal single expansion[1]
  • Single screw
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Speed11.2 knots (20.7 km/h) (under steam)
Armament
  • 20 × 8-inch (42cwt) muzzle-loading smoothbore cannons on broadside trucks
  • 1 × 10-inch/68pdr (95cwt) muzzle-loading smoothbore cannons pivot-mounted at bow

HMS Charybdis was a 21-gun Royal Navy Pearl-class corvette launched on 1 July 1859 at Chatham Dockyard.[2]

She served on the East Indies Station and the China Station between 1860 and 1861. She sailed to Vancouver in early 1862 joining the Pacific Station. She served at the Pacific Station until 1867, when she was assigned to the Australia Station arriving in March 1867.[2] She left the Australia Station on November 1868 and returned to the Pacific Station in early 1869.

As part of the Royal Navy's 1869 Flying Squadron, she visited a number of ports in South America, Australia and Japan before returning to Vancouver.[3] In 1870 she sailed to Plymouth for refit. In 1873 she was assigned to the China Station and conducted anti-piracy patrols in the Straits of Malacca.[2] During the Southern Malayan state disputes in 1874, she in conjunction with HMS Hart kept the peace.

In October 1880, she was lent to the Canadian government as a training ship, until returned by Canada in 1882. She was sold at Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1884 for breaking up.[2]

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d Winfield (2004) p.209
  2. ^ a b c d Bastock, pp.48-49.
  3. ^ Mid-Victorian RN vessels

References

  • Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 0-86777-348-0
  • 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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