HMS Eurydice (1843)

HMS Eurydice, painted by William Howard Yorke, Liverpool 1871
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Eurydice
NamesakeThe nymph Eurydice, wife of Orpheus
Ordered27 August 1841
BuilderPortsmouth Dockyard
Cost£16,137, plus £9,312 for fitting out
Laid downApril 1842
Launched16 May 1843
Completed1 September 1843
Commissioned27 June 1843
Recommissioned
  • 30 May 1846,
  • 4 April 1854,
  • 7 February 1877
Fate
  • Foundered in 1878
  • Salvaged and broken up that year
General characteristics
TypeCorvette
Tons burthen910 81/94 bm[1]
Length141 ft 2 in (43.03 m) (gundeck)[1] 117 ft 9.75 in (35.9093 m) (keel)
Beam38 ft 10 in (11.84 m)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement190[1]
Armament
  • Rated for 26 guns
  • Upperdeck: 18 × 32-pdr (45cwt) long guns
  • Quarterdeck: 6 × 32-pdr (25cwt) guns
  • Focsle: 2 × 32-pdr (45cwt) long guns

HMS Eurydice was a 26-gun Royal Navy corvette which was the victim of one of Britain's worst peacetime naval disasters when she sank in 1878.

  1. ^ a b c 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. p.115