HMS Eclipse (1867)
HMS Eclipse (1867)


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NameEclipse (1867)Explanation
TypeSloop (1876: Corvette)   
Launched14 November 1867   
HullWooden Length212 feet
PropulsionScrew Men180
Builders measure1276 tons   
Displacement1760 tons   
Guns6   
Fate1921 Last in commission1883
ClassEclipse   
Ships bookADM 135/147   
Career
DateEvent
14 November 1867Launched at Sheerness Dockyard (laid down as Sappho).
2 June 1868
- 27 August 1868
Commanded (from commissioning at Sheerness) by Captain Lewis James Moore, Sheerness (until dismissed the ship by Court-martial "for suffering the ship to ground off Heligoland on the 22d of July, to the hazard of the same ship")
30 August 1868
- 19 July 1869
Commanded by Captain Henry Harvey, North America and West Indies (until he died of yellow fever, together with the first Lieutenant and 16 members of the crew)
3 August 1869
- 2 December 1869
Commanded by Captain Henry Frederick Nicholson
10 August 1869
- 23 November 1872
Commanded (until paying off at Sheerness) by Captain Anthony Hiley Hoskins, North America and West Indies
19 November 1873
- 18 January 1878
Commanded (from commissioning at Sheerness until paying off at Sheerness) by Captain James Elphinstone Erskine. North America and West Indies
1 January 1880Commanded (from commissioning at Sheerness) by Captain Charles Compton Rising, East Indies
March 1882
- 25 September 1883
Commanded (until paying off at Sheerness) by Captain Edmund St John Garforth, East Indies
1888
- 1892
Lent to War Department.
1921Sold.
Extracts from the Times newspaper
DateExtract
Ma 1 May 1871The following is a brief account of the proceedings of Rear-Admiral Beauchamp Seymour's Flying Squadron since the last communication from the ships. Our letters are dated the 9th inst. [i.e. 9th April] from Jamaica : -"We remained a fortnight at Barbados, during which time the Governor and the town gave two balls in our honour, both being most successful. At Trinidad we stayed ten days, and from there have visited the islands of Grenada, St. Vincent, and St. Lucia, leaving the latter on the 30th, and arriving here yesterday. From St. Vincent to St. Lucia the squadron had a trial of rate of sailing. Getting all into one line when we had got an offing of the former island, the Admiral made the signal, 'Race to Castries, St. Lucia.' which was a dead heat [sic: should presumably be "dead beat"]. We started at 6 p.m. on the 27th and arrived in the following order on the 28th :- Volage, 12 50 p.m.; Narcissus, 2 50 p.m.; Pylades, 5 35 p.m.; Immortalité, 7 50 p.m.; Cadmus, 10 p.m. So the Volage has proved herself the best ship in sailing to windward, for she also beat the fleet in a two hours' trial we had between Grenada and St. Vincent. We met the Eclipse at St. Vincent on the 25th taking the Governor of Barbadoes round the islands. She was to return from there. The ships in port here are Myrmidon, Sphinx, Lapwing, and Britomart. We remain till the 20th, leaving for Havannah and Bermuda."- Army and Navy Gazette.
Ma 15 November 1880The following information respecting the movements of Her Majesty's ships is supplied by the Admiralty: — From Malta letters have been received from the Rear-Admiral Superintendent up to the 8th inst.; the Téméraire will be ready for sea the 27th inst.; and the Cygnet on the 20th inst.; the Invincible and Hecla are in port. Her Majesty's troopship Orontes left Port Said for England on the 12th inst. From the West Coast of Africa letters hive been received from the Senior Officer in the Dido, at Fernando Po, up to the 2d of October; had arrived from Bonny on the 1st of October, with the Firebrand in company, and would proceed to Ambas Bay, Batanga, and Cape Lopez, returning to Quitta via St Thomas. The Firebrand would relieve the Firefly at St. Paul de Loando. From the Cape of Good Hope intelligence has been received that the Commodore, in the Boadicea, was at Simon's Bay on the 14th inst. From the East Indies, letters have been received from the Commander-in-Chief, Rear-Admiral Gore Jones, C.B., in the Euryalus, was at Trincomalee up to the 12th of October. Was about to sail for Rangoon, and would be met there by the Eclipse and the Dryad. The Beacon was at Bussorah, the Ready was at Muscat, the Woodlark was at Karachi on the 6th October. The Ruby, the Dragon, and the Wild Swan, were on East Coast of Africa. The Seagull was at Aden, and would visit Jeddah shortly. The Philomel, coming to Aden from Seychelles, arrived there on the 20th October. Her Majesty's Indian troopship Serapis left Bombay for England on Saturday, the 13th inst.


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