H.M.S. Bacchante (1876)

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H.M.S. Bacchante (1876)
Builder: Portsmouth Royal Dockyard[1]
Launched: 19 Oct, 1876[2]
Completed: 1878[3]
Sold: 1897[4]

H.M.S. Bacchante was one of three Bacchante Class corvettes completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Commissioned at Portsmouth 14 April, 1885.[5]

In February, 1888, she was flagship on the East Indies Station, bearing the Commander-in-Chief, Rear-Admiral Frederick W. Richards.[6]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 52.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 52.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 52.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 52.
  5. The Navy List. (September, 1885). p. 197.
  6. The Navy List. (February, 1888). p. 188.
  7. The Navy List. (November, 1881). p. 196.
  8. William Loney RN
  9. The Navy List. (February, 1888). p. 196.
  10. William Loney RN
  11. William Loney RN

Bibliography


Bacchante Class Corvette
  Bacchante Boadicea Euryalus