HMS Vestal (1865)
HMS Vestal moored in Australia at an unknown date | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Vestal |
| Ordered | 1864 |
| Builder | Pembroke Dockyard |
| Laid down | 1864 |
| Launched | 16 November 1865 |
| Commissioned | 1867 |
| Fate | Sold, 1884 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Amazon-class sloop |
| Displacement | 1,597 long tons (1,623 metric tons) |
| Length | 56.99 m (187 ft 0 in) |
| Beam | 10.97 m (36 ft 0 in) |
| Depth | 4.69 m (15 ft) |
| Installed power | 1,455 ihp (1,085 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Sail plan | Barque |
| Speed | 2,154 ihp (1,606 kW) |
| Complement | 150 |
| Armament |
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HMS Vestal (1865) was an Amazon-class wooden screw sloop of the Royal Navy. She was intended to protect British trade against commerce raiders and was equipped with four guns. Commissioned in 1867, she spent a brief stint in the North Sea before she was sent to North America for the next four years. When the commission was completed, the sloop was fitted with nine guns in 1871 and she was sent to the East Indies in 1875. Five years later, she was replaced and condemned, and sold off in 1884.