Bacchante-class corvette

	HMS Bacchante
Class overview
Name	Bacchante-class corvette; (later Bacchante-class cruiser);
Builders	Portsmouth and Chatham Dockyards
Operators	Royal Navy
Preceded by	Emerald class
Succeeded by	Comus class
Built	1875–1877
In commission	1877–1905
Planned	4
Completed	3
Cancelled	1
Retired	3
General characteristics
Class and type	Iron screw corvettes; (cruisers from 1877);
Displacement	3,913-4,070 tons
Length	280 ft (85 m)
Beam	45 ft (14 m)
Draught	23 ft (7.0 m)
Propulsion	Three-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine; 10 × cylindrical boilers; 1 × 21 ft (6.4 m) diameter screw;
Sail plan	Ship-rigged
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	375 (later 420)
Armament	As built:; 14 × 7-inch/112-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns; 2 × 6.3-inch/64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns (not Bacchante); Later:; 12 × 6-inch Mk II breech-loading guns; 4 × 5-inch breech-loading guns; Machine guns;

The Bacchante class was a group of three iron screw corvettes in service with the Royal Navy from the late 1870s.

Design and construction

The ships were designed by Nathaniel Barnaby in 1872, with the first two ordered from Portsmouth Royal Dockyard in 1872 and Euryalus from Chatham Royal Dockyard in 1873. These were the last ships to be built of iron for the Royal Navy, with teak planking. Although similar, the three ships differed in design and appearance, and thus did not technically form a single class. A fourth ship (Highflyer) was ordered in 1878 from Portsmouth Dockyard, but was cancelled in 1879. In 1887, like all the remaining corvettes, they were redesignated cruisers by the Royal Navy.

Ships

Name	Ship builder	Launched	Fate
Boadicea	Portsmouth Dockyard	16 October 1875^[1]	Sold 6 January 1905^[2]
Bacchante	Portsmouth Dockyard	19 October 1876^[1]	Sold 10 May 1897^[2]
Euryalus	Chatham Dockyard	31 January 1877^[1]	Sold 10 May 1897^[2]
Highflyer	Cancelled 1879

References

Media related to Bacchante class corvette at Wikimedia Commons

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Bacchante-class at Battleships-Cruisers website". Retrieved 26 November 2008.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h 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.

[BC-1] "Bacchante-class at Battleships-Cruisers website". Retrieved 26 November 2008.

[RW-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h 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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v t e Bacchante-class corvettes
Boadicea Bacchante Euryalus
Preceded by: Emerald class Followed by: Comus class
List of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy