HMS Thetis (1871)

HMS Thetis was a Briton-class wooden screw corvette built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s.

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Thetis.

History
UK
Name:	HMS Thetis
Builder:	Devonport Dockyard
Laid down:	29 August 1870
Launched:	26 October 1871
Completed:	1 February 1873
Fate:	Sold for scrap, November 1887
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type:	Briton-class wooden screw corvette
Displacement:	1,854 long tons (1,884 t)
Tons burthen:	1,322 bm
Length:	220 ft (67.1 m) (p/p)
Beam:	36 ft (11.0 m)
Draught:	16 ft 6 in (5.0 m)
Depth of hold:	21 ft 6 in (6.6 m)
Installed power:	2,275 ihp (1,696 kW)
Propulsion:	1 × shaft 1 × 2-cylinder compound expansion steam engine 6 × cylindrical boilers
Sail plan:	Ship rig
Speed:	13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement:	220
Armament:	14 × 6.3-inch 64-pounder rifled muzzle-loading guns

She was present at the Bay of Pisagua when Chilean troops captured the port on 2 November 1879, during the Tarapaca Campaign.[1]

Chilean Navy ships, Covadonga, Almirante Cochrane, Angamos, Amazonas, and HMS Thetis in Pisagua, 1879

Notes

Footnotes

1. "Covadonga, Cochrane, Thetis, Angamos y Amazonas en Pisagua 1879". archivo.mmn.cl.

Bibliography

• Ballard, G. A. (1938). "British Corvettes of 1875: The Larger Ram-Bowed Type". Mariner's Mirror. Cambridge, UK: Society for Nautical Research. 24 (January): 81–94.
• Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
• 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.

External links

• Thetis at William Loney website
• Thetis at the Naval Database website