HMS Diamond (1874)
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| Name: | HMS Diamond |
| Namesake: | Diamond |
| Builder: | Sheerness Dockyard |
| Cost: | £76,796 |
| Laid down: | 1873 |
| Launched: | 26 September 1874 |
| Completed: | July 1875 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, August 1889 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type: | Amethyst-class wooden screw corvette |
| Tonnage: | 1,405 bm |
| Displacement: | 1,934 long tons (1,965 t) |
| Length: | 220 ft (67.1 m) (p/p) |
| Beam: | 37 ft (11.3 m) |
| Draught: | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
| Installed power: | 2,140 ihp (1,600 kW) |
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| Sail plan: | Ship rig |
| Speed: | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Range: | approximately 2,500 nmi (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 225 |
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HMS Diamond was an Amethyst-class corvette built for the Royal Navy at Sheerness Dockyard and launched on 26 September 1874.
In 1875 she commissioned service for the East Indies Station, later being transferred to the China Station. She returned to England in 1879 and was refitted and rearmed. After refit she commissioned service on the Australia Station in October 1881. She left the Australia Station in August 1888 and returned to England. She returned to Chatham and was paid off in 1889.
She was sold in August 1889.
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