HMS Pylades (1884)

HMS Pylades anchored at Hobsons Bay, Port Phillip c. 1895.
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Pylades
Namesake	Pylades
Builder	Sheerness Dockyard
Laid down	1 January 1883
Launched	5 November 1884
Commissioned	17 November 1884
Fate	Sold on 3 April 1906 for breaking up
General characteristics
Class and type	Satellite-class sloop
Displacement	1,420 tons
Length	200 ft (61 m) pp
Beam	38 ft (12 m)
Draught	15 ft 9 in (4.80 m)[1]
Installed power	1,470 ihp (1,096 kW)
Propulsion	Single horizontal compound-expansion steam engine Single screw[1]
Sail plan	Barque-rigged
Range	Approximately 6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h)[1]
Complement	170–200
Armament	Eight BL 6-inch/100-pounder (81cwt) Mk II guns One light gun Four machine guns[1][2]
Armour	Internal steel deck over machinery and magazines

HMS Pylades was a Satellite-class composite screw sloop of the Royal Navy, built at Sheerness Dockyard and launched on 5 November 1884.^[3] She was later reclassified as a corvette and was the last corvette built for the Royal Navy until the Second World War.