HMS ''Daphne'' was an
''Amazon''-class sloop, of the Royal Navy. She was in service from 1866 to 1879.
History
''Daphne'' was built at the
Pembroke Dockyard and launched on 23 October 1866. she spent her entire career east of Suez – in the East Indies and particularly on anti-slavery operations on the East coast of Africa.
She was commissioned at Plymouth on 12 June 1867 by Cdr George Lydiard Sulivan.. In October 1872, ''Daphne'' ran aground in the
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. She was refloated and taken in to
Bombay
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,
India
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for repairs.
''Daphne'' came back to finally pay off in 1879.
"Each of her commissions lasted four years, and her ever recurring appearance at so many successive slave running seasons earned a tradition of wrath at the mention of her name among the merchants in that line of business", wrote Admiral Ballard in July 1938.
[''Pembroke Dockyard and the Old Navy: A Bicentennial History'' By Lieutenant Commander Lawrie Phillips]
References
Publications
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* http://www.ajbrown.me.uk/IndividualStories/WGOrchard/HMS_Daphne.htm
* ''Dhow chasing in Zanzibar waters and on the eastern coast of Africa. Narrative of five years' experiences in the suppression of the slave trade'' by Sulivan, George Lydiard. Publication date: 1873. Reprint: Cambridge Library Collection, 2011.
1866 ships
Amazon-class sloops
Ships built in Pembroke Dock
Victorian-era sloops of the United Kingdom
Maritime incidents in October 1872
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