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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Bacchante |
| Namesake | Bacchus |
| Builder | Portsmouth Dockyard |
| Launched | 19 October 1876 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap in 1897 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Bacchante-class corvette |
| Displacement | 4,070 tons |
| Tons burthen | 2,679 tons |
| Length | 280 ft (85 m) |
| Beam | 45.5 ft (13.9 m) |
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HMS Bacchante was a Bacchante-class ironclad screw-propelled corvette of the Royal Navy. She is particularly famous for being the ship on which the Princes George and Albert served as midshipmen.
Bacchante was built at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 19 October 1876, the second ship of the three ship Bacchante class.[1] She was armed with fourteen 7-inch (177.8 mm) muzzle-loading rifle guns and two 64-pounder torpedo carriages, and rated at 4070 tons.[2]
- ^ Colledge. Ships of the Royal Navy. p. 28.
- ^ Gillett, Ross; Melliar-Phelps, Michael (1980). A Century of Ships in Sydney Harbour. Rigby Publishers. p. 22. ISBN 0-7270-1201-0.