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HMS Pylades (1884)
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HMS Pylades anchored at Hobsons Bay, Port Phillip c. 1895.
Career Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Pylades
Namesake: Pylades
Builder: Sheerness Dockyard
Laid down: 1 January 1883
Launched: 5 November 1884
Commissioned: 17 November 1884
Fate: Sold on 3 April 1906 for breaking up
General characteristics
Class & type: Satellite-class sloop
Displacement: 1,420 tons
Length: 200 ft (61 m) pp
Beam: 38 ft (12 m)
Draught: 15 ft 9 in (4.80 m)[1]
Installed power: 1,470 ihp (1,096 kW)
Propulsion:
  • Single horizontal compound-expansion steam engine
  • Single screw[1]
Sail plan: Barque-rigged
Range: Approximately 6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h)[1]
Complement: 170-200
Armament:
Armour: Internal steel deck over machinery and magazines

HMS Pylades was an Satellite-class composite screw sloop of the Royal Navy, built at Sheerness Dockyard and launched on 5 November 1884.[3] She was later reclassified as a corvette and was the last corvette built for the Royal Navy until the Second World War.

Initially on service with the North America and West Indies Station, she commenced service on the Australia Station in November 1894. She left the Australia Station on 29 January 1905.[3] She was sold to Cohen of Felixstowe for breaking on 3 April 1906.[3]

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