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| Name | Nymphe (1866) | Explanation | |
| Type | Sloop | ||
| Launched | 24 November 1866 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | Length | 187 feet |
| Propulsion | Screw | Men | 150 |
| Builders measure | 1084 tons | ||
| Displacement | 1570 tons | ||
| Guns | 4 | ||
| Fate | 1884 | Last in commission | 1879 |
| Class | Amazon | ||
| Ships book | ADM 135/331 | ||
| Career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 24 November 1866 | Launched at Deptford Dockyard. | ||
| 8 June 1867 - 1 December 1867 | Commanded (from commissioning at Woolwich) by Commander Thomas Barnardiston, East Indies | ||
| (1870) - 21 January 1870 | Commanded by Commander Edward Spencer Meara, East Indies (until Meara invalided) | ||
| 21 January 1870 - 10 December 1870 | Commanded by Commander John Campion Wells, East Indies (and from 1 November 1870 on passage) | ||
| 1 October 1870 - 14 August 1871 | Commanded (until paying off) by Commander Richard Adams, East Indies | ||
| 5 January 1875 | Commanded by Commander Francis Grant Suttie, Australia | ||
| 11 January 1877 - 10 May 1879 | Commanded by Captain Samuel Philip Townsend, Australia | ||
| December 1884 | Sold for breaking up. | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Tu 25 July 1871 | The following vessels of war are now on their passage home for the purpose of being put out of commission and their crew paid off: - The Forte, 24, 2,364 tons, 400-horse power, Capt. H. Fairfax, flagship of Rear-Admiral J.H. Cockburn, commanding the East India squadron, and the Nymph, 4, 1,084 tons, 300-horse power, Commander R. Adams, from the East Indies; the Charybdis, 17, 1,506 tons, 400-horse power, Capt. A.M'L. Lyons, from the Pacific; the Virago, 6, 1,053 tons, 200-horse power, paddlewheel steamer, Commander H.S. Sandys, from Australia; the | ||
| Sa 3 April 1875 | During the first three months of the year the following ships have been placed in commission:—The Hercules, Capt. Codrington; the Nymphe, Capt. Suttie; the Undaunted, Capt. Campbell; and the Warrior, Capt. White. The Caledonia, the Egmont, the Fawn, and the Princess Charlotte have been paid off. The following are ordered home:— The Avon, the Boxer, the Cameleon, the Elk, the Iron Duke, the Reindeer, the Rosario, the Scout, the Shearwater, and the Volage. | ||
| Tu 11 April 1876 | Australia.— Letters from Commodore Hoskins, in the Pearl at Sydney, up to the 16th of February. The Nymphe was at Levuka, Fiji, on the 14th of January. The Barracouta daily expected to rejoin the broad pendant at Sydney. The Sapphire arrived at Sydney on the 12th of February. The Sappho expected at Sydney about the 20th of February. The Alacrity would leave Sydney about the 10th of March for Fiji to re-commence surveying. The Sandfly left Sydney on the 26th of January for Noumea, New Caledonia, and Tucopia in the New Hebrides, to visit the Santa Cruz group and cruise among the Solomon islands. The Beagle left Sydney on the 26th of January for Norfolk Island, New Hebrides, and Santa Cruz group. The Renard cruising between Auckland and Wellington in place of the Sappho, temporarily withdrawn. The Conflict left Port Darwin on the 29th of January for Nichol Bay. The St. Osyth would leave Sydney on the 26th of February for England, with such of the crews of the Beagle and the Sandfly as were not taken on board Her Majesty's ship Dido. | ||
| Sa 18 August 1877 | Cruise of the Sappho.—Her Majesty's ship Sappho arrived at Auckland on the 26th of May. She was caught in a violent squall a few days before, which blew away all her sails and hove her on her beam ends. She lay in a very dangerous position for a few minutes, but afterwards righted. The Sappho, after leaving Samoa, went through Hapu and Tonga groups, searching for the schooner May Queen, supposed to have disappeared when the earth-quake wave was felt at Tonga, but without success. The Sappho took the new British Consul for Samoa, Mr. Liardet, round the Samoan group. The schooner Canterbury, which set out on an expedition supposed to be conducted with Suwarrow, left Samoa for the Savage Islands on the 6th. She was very much knocked about by the hurricane, and the cargo had to be sold to raise money to refit her. Her intention of going to the Savage Islands was reported to be to get a cargo of pigs. The earthquake wave was experienced very strongly at Vavao and Tonga. There were 10 or 12 rises and falls at Vavao on the 11th of May, the greatest rise being about 10 feet. The reef was left quite exposed at times, and as the water receded it left millions of fish behind it on the reefs. The effect was very extraordinary. The natives do not recollect anything like it, and, in a great rage, accused the Sappho of bringing the wave. At Tonga the wave lifted the stranded ketch Pearl right off the reef and left her in deep water, saving a lot of trouble and expense. The Sappho reports that Maki, Governor of Vavao, met with his death in an extraordinary manner early in May. He was amusing himself by killing fish with dynamite, and happening to keep hold of a charge too long after lighting the fuse it exploded, blowing his hand and part of his arm away. A day or two afterwards lockjaw set in and he died. Her Majesty's ships Wolverene, Nymph, and Sappho rendezvous at Auckland shortly for a Court-martial.— Otago Daily Times. | ||
| Tu 15 April 1879 | Tbc following vessels are under orders to return home to be paid off:- Active, 10, iron screw corvette, cased with iron, Capt. Henry J.F. Campbell, from the Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa, ordered to Spithead. This vessel was commissioned at Portsmouth, April 13, 1877. The Daphne, 4, screw sloop, Commander [William] H.C. Selby, from the East Indies, ordered to Devonport. This vessel was re-commissioned at Zanzibar, January 1, 1879. The Daring, 4, composite screw sloop, Commander John G.J. Hanmer from the Pacific, ordered to Spithead; commissioned at Chatham, September 29, 1874. The Lynx, 4, double screw composite gun vessel, Commander Francis M. Ommanney, from the East Indies, ordered to Devonport, at which port she was commissioned on the 9th of June, 1875. The Nassau, 4, screw surveying vessel, Commander William M. Lang, from China, ordered to Devonport. This vessel was re-commissioned at Hongkong on the 1st of November, 1878. The Nymphe, 9, steam sloop, Capt. Samuel P. Townsend, from Australia, ordered to Spithead. This vessel was commissioned at Sheerness on the 5th of January, 1875. The Pert, 4, double screw composite gun vessel, Commander Henry C. Aitchison, from North America and West Indies, ordered to Devonport, where she was commissioned on the 1st of July, 1875. The Rover, 18, iron screw corvette, cased with wood, Capt. Thomas Barnardiston, from North America and the West Indies, ordered to Devonport. This vessel was commissioned at Chatham on the 14th of December, 1875. The Sapphire, 14, screw corvette, Capt. E.H. Murray, from Australia, ordered to Devonport, at which port this vessel was commissioned on the 9th of August, 1875. The Sappho, 4, composite screw sloop, Commander Noel S.F. Digby, from the Australian station, ordered to Spithead. This vessel was commissioned at Chatham on the 26th of August, 1874. The Volage, 18, iron corvette, cased with wood, Capt. Richard Carter, from the south-east coast of America, ordered to Portsmouth, at which port she was commissioned on the 6th of July, 1874. | ||
| Ma 20 June 1881 | Orders have been received at Chatham Dockyard for the following vessels, belonging to the Medway Steam Reserve to be broken up, being of no further use:- Barracouta, paddlewheel sloop, 1,680 tons, 881 horse power; Basilisk paddlewheel sloop, 1,690 tons, 1,033-horse power; Argus, five guns, paddlewheel sloop, 1,660 tons, 764-horse power; Scylla, screw corvette, 2,187 tons, 1,376-horse power; Nymphe, nine guns, screw sloop, 1,574 tons, 2,172-horse power; Camellan. screw sloop, 1,365 tons, 702-horse power; and the Rosario, screw sloop, 913 tons, 436-horse power. | ||
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