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词条 HMS Sapphire (1874)
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  1. Fate

  2. See also

  3. Notes

  4. Footnotes

  5. Bibliography

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HMS Sapphire was an {{sclass-|Amethyst|corvette}} built for the Royal Navy at Devonport Dockyard and launched on 24 September 1874.[1]

She commenced service on the Australia Station in August 1875.[1] She left the Australia Station in July 1879 and returned to England and was refitted and rearmed. After refit she commissioned for the China Station in 1883 until 1890. She returned to Plymouth and was paid off.[1]

Fate

She was sold on 24 September 1892 to G. Cohen.[1]

See also

  • Sapphiretown, South Australia

Notes

1. ^1 2 3 Bastock, p. 73

Footnotes

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Bibliography

  • {{cite journal|last=Ballard|first=G. A.|date=1937|title=British Corvettes of 1875: The Last Wooden class|journal=Mariner's Mirror|publisher=Society for Nautical Research|location=Cambridge, UK|volume=23|pages=435–45|issue=October}}
  • Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. {{ISBN|0-86777-348-0}}
  • {{cite book|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905|editor=Gardiner, Robert |publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=London|year=1979|isbn=0-8317-0302-4}}
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