HMS ''Sapphire'' was an built for the
Royal Navy
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at
Devonport Dockyard and launched on 24 September 1874.
[Bastock, p. 73]
She commenced service on the
Australia Station
The Australia Station was the British, and later Australian, naval command responsible for the waters around the Australian continent. Australia Station was under the command of the Commander-in-Chief, Australia Station, whose rank varied over t ...
in August 1875.
She left the Australia Station in July 1879 and returned to England and was refitted and rearmed. After refit she commissioned for the
China Station
The Commander-in-Chief, China, was the admiral in command of what was usually known as the China Station, at once both a British Royal Navy naval formation and its admiral in command. It was created in 1865 and deactivated in 1941.
From 1831 to 1 ...
in 1883 until 1890. She returned to Plymouth and was
paid off
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.
Fate
She was sold on 24 September 1892 to
G. Cohen.
See also
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Sapphiretown, South Australia __NOTOC__
Sapphiretown is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the north coast of Dudley Peninsula on Kangaroo Island overlooking Eastern Cove about south of the state capital of Adelaide and about south-west of P ...
Footnotes
Bibliography
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* Bastock, John (1988), ''Ships on the Australia Station'', Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia.
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1874 ships
Ships built in Plymouth, Devon
Amethyst-class corvettes
Victorian-era corvettes of the United Kingdom
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