HMS Opal (1875)
 Opal in Sydney | |
| History | |
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| Name: | HMS Opal |
| Builder: | William Doxford & Sons Ltd, Sunderland |
| Laid down: | 13 October 1873 |
| Launched: | 9 March 1875 |
| Fate: | Sold for breaking at Sheerness, August 1892 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type: | Emerald-class corvette |
| Displacement: | 2,120 tons |
| Tons burthen: | 1,864 bm |
| Length: | 220 ft (67 m) pp |
| Beam: | 40 ft (12 m) |
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| Depth of hold: | 21 ft 6 in (6.55 m) |
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| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship (barque from the 1880s) |
| Complement: | 232 |
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HMS Opal was an Emerald-class corvette of the Royal Navy, laid down as Magicienne by William Doxford & Sons Ltd, Sunderland and launched on 9 March 1875.[2]
She was completed with an armament of 14 muzzle-loading 64-pounder rifled guns (2 as bow and stern chasers mounted on centre-line swivelling slides, and 12 on broadside slide mountings) and initially commenced service on the Pacific Station, and while on passage in 1876 hit a rock in the Strait of Magellan. She was damaged and repairs were undertaken at Esquimalt.[2] She returned to England in 1880 for refit, in which her broadside armament was reduced by 2 guns and she was re-rigged as a barque. She sailed for service on the Cape of Good Hope and West Africa Station in 1883, before commencing service on the Australia Station in 1885.[2] She returned to England in 1890 and was placed into reserve. She was sold for breaking up at Sheerness in August 1892.[2]
Citations
References
- Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 0-86777-348-0
- 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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