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| Name | Defiance III (launched as Cleopatra, 1878) | Explanation | |
| Type | Corvette | ||
| Launched | 1 August 1878 | ||
| Hull | Steel | ||
| Propulsion | Screw | ||
| Builders measure | |||
| Displacement | 2380 tons | ||
| Guns | 14 | ||
| Fate | 1931 | ||
| Class | Comus | ||
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| Note | 1922.01 = Defiance III | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 22 August 1891 - 23 May 1892 | Commanded by Captain William Metcalfe Lang, senior officer, south east coast of America | ||
| 21 September 1892 - 5 December 1895 | Commanded by Captain Assheton Gore Curzon-Howe, North America and West Indies (being Commodore during the Newfoundland fishing season) | ||
| January 1922 | Renamed Defiance III | ||
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