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| Class overview | |
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| Name | Amethyst class |
| Builders | Devonport Dockyard, Sheerness Dockyard |
| Operators |  Royal Navy |
| Preceded by | Volage class |
| Succeeded by | HMS Rover |
| Built | 1871–75 |
| Completed | 5 |
| Scrapped | 5 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Type | Wooden screw corvette |
| Displacement | 1,934 long tons (1,965 t) |
| Tons burthen | 1,405 bm |
| Length | 220 ft (67.1 m) (p/p) |
| Beam | 37 ft (11.3 m) |
| Draught | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
| Installed power | 2,031–2,364 ihp (1,515–1,763 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Sail plan | Ship rig |
| Speed | 12–13 knots (22–24 km/h; 14–15 mph) |
| Range | 2,060–2,500 nmi (3,820–4,630 km; 2,370–2,880 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 225 |
| Armament | 14 × 64-pounder 71-cwt or 64-cwt rifled muzzle-loading (RML) guns |
The Amethyst-class corvettes were a class of the last wooden warships to be built for the British Royal Navy; each was built at a Royal Dockyard. Three were ordered under the 1871–72 Programme and two under the 1872–73 Programme. Built in the early and middle 1870s, they mostly served overseas and were retired early as they were regarded as hopelessly obsolete by the late 1880s. She served alongside HMS Shah in the action against the Peruvian warship Huascar on 29th May 1877.