Amazon-class sloop

	HMS Dryad at anchor, with sails airing
Class overview
Name	Amazon-class sloops
Builders	Pembroke Dockyard; Devonport Dockyard;
Operators	Royal Navy
Built	1865–1866
In commission	1865–1885
Completed	6
Lost	2
General characteristics
Type	Screw sloop
Displacement	1574 tons
Length	187 ft (57 m)
Beam	36 ft (11 m)
Draught	17 ft (5.2 m)
Installed power	300 horsepower
Propulsion	Single screw; Two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine;
Sail plan	Barque
Complement	150
Armament	As built:; 2 × 7-inch (6½-ton) muzzle-loading rifled guns; 2 × 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns; As converted (Dryad, Nymphe & Vestal):; 9 × 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns;

The Amazon class was a class of six screw sloops of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy between 1865 and 1866.

^ ^a ^b ^c "Cruisers at Battleships-Cruisers website". Retrieved 17 September 2008.
^ 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.

Class overview
HMS Dryad at anchor, with sails airing
Name	Amazon-class sloops
Builders	Pembroke Dockyard Devonport Dockyard
Operators	Royal Navy
Built	1865–1866
In commission	1865–1885
Completed	6
Lost	2
General characteristics
Type	Screw sloop
Displacement	1574 tons
Length	187 ft (57 m)
Beam	36 ft (11 m)
Draught	17 ft (5.2 m)^[1]
Installed power	300 horsepower^[1]
Propulsion	Single screw Two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine
Sail plan	Barque
Complement	150^[1]
Armament	As built: 2 × 7-inch (6½-ton) muzzle-loading rifled guns 2 × 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns As converted (Dryad, Nymphe & Vestal): 9 × 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns^[2]