- Fate
- Citations
- Bibliography
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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country= | Ship flag= | Ship name= HMS Sappho | Ship namesake=Sappho | Ship builder= Wigram & Sons, Blackwall | Ship laid down=1872 | Ship launched= 20 November 1873 | Ship completed=February 1874 | Ship commissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship fate= Sold for scrap, December 1887 | Ship notes=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Fantome|sloop}} | Ship tons burthen=727 bm | 949|LT|t}} | 160|ft|m|abbr=on|1}} (p/p) | 31|ft|4|in|m|abbr=on|1}} | 14|ft|m|abbr=on|1}} | 15|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on|1}} | 884|ihp|lk=in|abbr=on}} | Ship propulsion=*1 shaft- 1 × 2-cylinder horizontal compound expansion steam engine
- 3 × cylindrical boilers
| 10|kn|lk=in}} | 1000|nmi|lk=in|abbr=on}} at {{convert|10|kn}} | Ship complement=125 | Ship sail plan=Barque rig | Ship armament=*2 × 7-inch rifled muzzle-loading guns- 2 × 6.3-inch 64-pounder rifled muzzle-loading guns
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}} | HMS Sappho was a {{sclass-|Fantome|sloop|0}} sloop, of the Royal Navy, built by Wigram & Sons, Blackwall and launched on 20 November 1873.[1]She was placed under the command of Commander Noel Stephen Fox Digby and commenced service at the Australian station in December 1874.[1] In May 1877 she was at Tonga when the tsunami from the Iquique earthquake struck the islands. The natives blamed her for bringing the tsunami.[2] In August 1877, still under Digby, she participated in the search for the missing crew and passengers of the Queen Bee that had run aground on Farewell Spit, New Zealand. She successfully found the missing third mate whom she took to Nelson. While at Nelson, her crew participated in a number of fund raising concerts for those shipwrecked.[3] She left the Australia Station in August 1878 and returned to England. Sappho commenced service on the Pacific Station in 1881 until 1886 whereupon she returned to England and was paid off.[1]FateShe was sold for scrap in December 1887.[1] Citations1. ^1 2 3 Bastock, p. 66.
2. ^The tidal wave at Tonga, West Coast Times , Issue 2545, 28 May 1877, Page 2
3. ^Wreck of the Queen Bee, p. 2, “Nelson Evening Mail”, 13 August 1877
Bibliography- {{cite journal|last=Ballard|first=G. A.|year=1939|title=British Sloops of 1875: The Smaller Composite Type|journal=The Mariner's Mirror|publisher=Society for Nautical Research|location=Cambridge, UK|volume=25|pages=151–61|issue=April|doi=10.1080/00253359.1939.10657329}}
- 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|editor1-last=Chesneau|editor1-first=Roger|editor2-last=Kolesnik|editor2-first=Eugene M.|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=Greenwich, UK|year=1979|isbn=0-8317-0302-4}}
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