HMS Ruby (1876)

Ruby
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Ruby
Builder	Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull
Laid down	8 July 1874
Launched	9 August 1876
Completed	14 June 1877
Out of service	Converted to a coal hulk in December 1904
Fate	Sold to be broken up in February 1921
General characteristics
Class and type	Emerald-class corvette
Displacement	2,120 long tons (2,150 t)
Length	220 ft (67 m) pp
Beam	40 ft (12 m)
Draught	18 ft (5.5 m)
Installed power	2,000 ihp (1,500 kW)
Propulsion	6 × cylindrical boilers 2-cylinder compound engine Single screw
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship (barque from the 1880s)
Complement	232
Armament	12 × 64-pounder 71-cwt RML guns

HMS Ruby was an Emerald-class composite screw corvette that served in the Victorian Royal Navy. The Emerald class was a development of the wooden Amethyst class but combined an iron frame and teak cladding. Launched in 1876, Ruby was commissioned to the East Indies Station, serving between Burma, Ceylon, Madras and other important parts of the British Empire. Transferred to operating in the Mediterranean Sea, the vessel supported humanitarian efforts during the 1878 Macedonian rebellion and then the British forces during the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882. The corvette served in the South East Coast of America Station from 1885, retiring in 1904. After a period as a coal hulk with the name C.10, Ruby was sold in 1921 to be broken up.