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Royal naval Corvettes. List of Royal Naval Corvettes from the early Screw corvettes of the 19th Century to the Flower and Castle Class Corvettes of World War Two.

NAME LAUNCHED FATE

 BAROSSA OR JASON Wooden Screw Corvettes

HMS Jason 10th November 1859 Scrapped 1877
HMS Barossa 10th March 1860 Scrapped  1877
HMS Orestes 18th August 1860 Scrapped 1866
HMS Orpheus 23rd June 1860 Wrecked 7th February 1863
HMS Rattlesnake 9th July 1861 Broken up in 1880/1881
HMS Wolverine 29th August 1863 Sold in 1905

 JUNO  Wooden Screw Corvettes

HMS Juno 28th November 1867 Scrapped 1887
HMS Thalia 14th July 1869 Scrapped  1920

 Eclipse  Wooden Screw Corvettes

HMS Eclipse 14th November 1867 Scrapped 1921

HMS Eclipse - Name History

TThe sixth “ECLIPSE” was a 12-gun screw sloop, launched at Sheerness in 1867.  When laid down she had been called “Sappho.”  She was of 1273 tons, 350 horse-power, and 10 knots speed.  Her length, beam, and draught were 212ft., 36ft., and 11ft.   In 1882 the “Eclipse,” commanded by Captain Edmund St. John Garthforth, was engaged in the Egyptian War.  In August 1882 the “Eclipse” contributed to a Naval Brigade which was disembarked at Suez.  The inhabitants understood that the town was in danger of being burnt, but the Naval Brigade, composed mostly of marines, occupied the town, and the Egyptian troops fled.  The “Eclipse” was lent to the War Office in 1888, taken over again in 1892, and ended her career as a Naval ordnance mine depot at Plymouth.

HMS Blanche 17th August 1867 Sold 1886
HMS Danae 21st May 1867 Scrapped 1906
HMS Dido 23rd October 1869 Scrapped 1922

HMS Dido - Name History

The fourth “Dido” was a 12-gun screw corvette, launched at Portsmouth in 1869.  She was of 1760 tons, 2520 horse-power, and 13.6 knots speed.  Her length, beam, and draught were 212ft., 36ft., and 16ft.  In 1871 the “Dido,” commanded by Captain William Cox Chapman, an officer of great tact and good temper, was instrumental in settling without bloodshed a dispute among the Kings of New Calabar, Bonny, and Ekrika, on the Niger, and in procuring safety for British trade in that river.  In 1873 the “Dido” was similarly successful in settling a number of difficulties which had arisen in Fiji between the natives and the white settlers.  In 1874 the “Dido” was present at the formal transfer of the Fiji Islands to the British flag, and was so unfortunate as to introduce measles among the native population, which resulted in a lamentable loss of life.   In 1876 the “Dido” returned to England after a five-years commission full of valuable though unostentatious work.  In 1881 the “Dido,” commanded by Captain Compton Edward Domvile, took part in the first Boer War.  After the battle of Laing’s Nek, the “Dido” contributed to a Naval Brigade of 50 men and two field guns, which went to the front under Lieutenant Henry Ogle of the “Dido.”  This brigade shared in the disaster at Majuba on February 27th ,  where the “Dido’s” lost 3 killed and wounded 3, and the “Boadicea’s” lost 11 killed, 6 mortally wounded, and 10 severely wounded.  Captain Compton Domvile then proceeded to the front to take charge of the Naval Brigade, but no further took place before a peace was concluded.  This vessel’s name was subsequently changed to “Actaeon,” and she was merged into the Torpedo School at Sheerness, after some service as a mine depot on the Forth.   

HMS Sirius 24th April 1868 Sold 1885
HMS Spartan 24th November 1868 Sold in 1882
HMS Tenedos 13th May 1870 Sold in 1887

 BRITON Class  Wooden Screw Corvettes                View Class

HMS Briton 6th November 1869 Scrapped 1887 / 1890
HMS Druid 13th march 1869 Sold 1886
HMS Thetis 26th October 1871 Sold 1887

 VOLAGE Class  Iron Screw Corvettes                     View Class

HMS Volage 27th February 1869 Sold 1904
HMS Active 13th march 1869 Sold 1906
HMS Rover 12th August 1874 Sold 1893

  AMETHYST Wooden Screw Corvettes

HMS Ameythyst 19th April 1873 Sold 1887
HMS Diamond 26th August 1874 Sold 1889

HMS Diamond - Name History

The twelfth “DIAMOND” was a 14-gun screw corvette launched at Sheerness in 1874.  She was of 1970 tons, 2150 horse-power, and 13.7 knots speed.  Her length, beam, and draught were 220ft., 37ft., and 18ft.  In 1889 the “Diamond” was sold.  

HMS Encounter 1st January 1873 Sold 1888

HMS Encounter - Name History

The third “Encounter” was a 14-gun screw corvette, launched at Sheerness in 1873.  She was of 1970 tons, 2130 horse-power, and 13 knots speed.  Her length, beam, and draught were 220ft., 37ft., and 17ft.   In 1873 the “Encounter,” commanded by Captain Richard Bradshaw, took part in the Ashantee War.   In November the “Encounter” contributed to a Naval Brigade under Captain the Hon.Edmund Fremantle, which marched inland to the relief of Abrakrampa, then sorely pressed by the Ashantees.  The enemy were seized with a panic and retired hastily, abandoning almost all their stores. On December 26th the “Encounter,” bombarded a village on Alboaddi Point, and then sent her boats under Lieutenant Alfred Loveridge in to burn the place.    In 1875 the “Encounter,” commanded by Captain Richard Bradshaw, was one of 7 ships which co-operated in a punitive expedition up the river Congo under Commodore Sir William Hewett with his broad pennant in “Active.”  It was undertaken on account of the looting of the British schooner “Geraldine” and the murder of four of her crew.   On August 31st the boats from the “Encounter” and two other ships were towed to the entrance of Chango Creek.  One hundred and fifty marines were landed under Captain Bradshaw and succeeded in burning three villages, although they were fired at by natives concealed in the bush.  All the villages on the north bank were destroyed, and further punishment was inflicted in Luculla Creek and other places. The labours of the expedition were most arduous, some of the creeks being overgrown with luxuriant vegetation which had to be cut away to admit of an advance, and the country generally was very difficult.  Captain Richard Bradshaw was mentioned in despatches as having rendered conspicuous service, and the loss suffered was but 1 killed and 6 wounded.  In 1888 the “Encounter” was sold.   

HMS Modeste 23rd May 1873 Sold 1888
HMS Saphire 24th September 1874 Sold 1892

  BACCHANTE CLASS iron Screw Corvettes           View Class

HMS Bacchante 19th October 1876 Sold 1897
HMS Boadicea 16th October 1875 Sold 1905
HMS Euryalus 31st January 1877 Sold 1897

  COMUS CLASS Steel Corvettes                    View Class

HMS Comus 3rd April 1878 Sold 1904
HMS Carysfort 26th September 1878 Sold 1899
HMS Champion 1st July 1878 Sold 1931
HMS Cleopatra 1st August 1878 Sold 1899
HMS Conquest 28th October 1878 Sold 1904
HMS Curacoa 18th April 1878 Sold 1899
HMS Constance 9th June 1880 Sold 1899
HMS Canada 26th August 1881 Sold 1897
HMS Cordelia 25th October 1881 Sold 1904

  SATELLITE CLASS Corvettes

HMS Satellite 13th August 1881 Sold 1904
HMS Caroline 25th November 1882 Sold 1929
HMS Heroine 3rd December 1881 Sold 1902
HMS Hyacinth 20th December 1881 Sold 1902
HMS Rapid 21st March 1883 Sold 1948
HMS Pylades 5th November 1884 Sold 1906
HMS Royalist 7th March 1883 Transferred to Ireland, 1923

  CALYPSO CLASS Steel Corvettes               View Class

HMS Calypso 7th June 1883 Sold 1922
HMS Calliope 24th July 1884 Sold 1951

Flower Class Corvettes

bulletHMS Abelia
bulletHMS Acanthus
bulletHMS Aconite
bulletHMS Alisma
bulletHMS Alyssum
bulletHMS Amaranthus
bulletHMS Anchusa
bulletHMS Anemone
bulletHMS Arabis
bulletHMS Arbutus
bulletHMS Armeria
bulletHMS Asphodel
bulletHMS Aster
bulletHMS Aubrietia
bulletHMS Auricula
bulletHMS Azalea
bulletHMS Balsam
bulletHMS Begonia
bulletHMS Bellwort
bulletHMS Bergamot
bulletHMS Bluebell
bulletHMS Borage
bulletHMS Vervain
bulletHMS Bryony
bulletHMS Burdock
bulletHMS Buttercup
bulletHMS Calendula
bulletHMS Camellia
bulletHMS Campanula
bulletHMS Campion
bulletHMS Candytuft
bulletHMS Carnation
bulletHMS Celandine
bulletHMS Chrysanthemum
bulletHMS Clarkia
bulletHMS Clematis
bulletHMS Clover
bulletHMS Coltsfoot
bulletHMS Columbine
bulletHMS Convolvulus
bulletHMS Coreopsis
bulletHMS Cowslip
bulletHMS Crocus
bulletHMS Cyclamen
bulletHMS Dianella
bulletHMS Dahlia
bulletHMS Delphinium
bulletHMS Dianthus
bulletHMS Eglantine
bulletHMS Erica
bulletHMS Freesia
bulletHMS Fritillary
bulletHMS Gardenia
bulletHMS Genista
bulletHMS Gentian
bulletHMS Geranium
bulletHMS Gladiolus
bulletHMS Gloxinia
bulletHMS Godetia
bulletHMS Heather
bulletHMS Heliotrope
bulletHMS Hibiscus
bulletHMS Hollyhock
bulletHMS Honeysuckle
bulletHMS Hyacinth
bulletHMS Hydrangea
bulletHMS Coriander
bulletHMS Jasmine
bulletHMS Jonquil
bulletHMS  Kingcup
bulletHMS Larkspur
bulletHMS Lavender
bulletHMS Lobelia
bulletHMS Loosestrife
bulletHMS Lotus
bulletHMS Mallow
bulletHMS Marguerite
bulletHMS Marigold
bulletHMS Meadowsweet
bulletHMS Mignonette
bulletHMS Mimosa
bulletHMS Monkshood
bulletHMS Montbretia
bulletHMS Myosotis
bulletHMS Narcissus
bulletHMS Nettle
bulletHMS Nigella
bulletHMS Orchis
bulletHMS Oxlip
bulletHMS Heartsease
bulletHMS Pennywort
bulletHMS Peony
bulletHMS Pentstemon
bulletHMS Periwinkle
bulletHMS Petunia
bulletHMS Picotee
bulletHMS Pimpernel
bulletHMS Pink
bulletHMS Polyanthus
bulletHMS Poppy
bulletHMS Potentilla
bulletHMS Primrose
bulletHMS Primula
bulletHMS Ranunculus
bulletHMS Rhododendron
bulletHMS Rockrose
bulletHMS Rose
bulletHMS Salvia
bulletHMS Samphire
bulletHMS Saxifrage
bulletHMS Snapdragon
bulletHMS Snowdrop
bulletHMS Spiraea
bulletHMS Starwort
bulletHMS Stonecrop
bulletHMS Sundew
bulletHMS Sunflower
bulletHMS Sweetbriar
bulletHMS Tamarisk
bulletHMS Thyme
bulletHMS Tulip
bulletHMS Verbena
bulletHMS Veronica
bulletHMS Vetch
bulletHMS Violet
bulletHMS Wallflower
bulletHMS Woodruff
bulletHMS Snowflake
bulletHMS Zinnia
bulletLa Bastiaise
bulletFleur de Lys
bulletLa Malouine
bulletNasturtium

Castle Class Corvettes

bulletHMS Allington Castle
bulletHMS Alnwick Castle
bulletHMS Amberley Castle
bulletHMS Bamborough Castle
bulletHMS Berkeley Castle
bulletHMS Caistor Castle
bulletHMS Carisbrooke Castle
bulletHMS Denbigh Castle
bulletHMS Dumbarton Castle
bulletHMS Farnham Castle
bulletHMS Flint Castle
bulletHMS Gorey Castle
bulletHMS Guildford Castle
bulletHMS Hadleigh Castle
bulletHMS Hedingham Castle
bulletHMS Hever Castle
bulletHMS Hurst Castle
bulletHMS Kenilworth Castle
bulletHMS Knaresborough Castle
bulletHMS Lancaster Castle
bulletHMS Launceston Castle
bulletHMS Leeds Castle
bulletHMS Morpeth Castle
bulletHMS Norham Castle
bulletHMS Nunnery Castle
bulletHMS Oakham Castle
bulletHMS Oxford Castle
bulletHMS Pembroke Castle
bulletHMS Pevensey Castle
bulletHMS Portchester Castle
bulletHMS Rising Castle
bulletHMS Rushen Castle
bulletHMS Sandgate Castle
bulletHMS Sherborne Castle
bulletHMS Shrewsbury Castle
bulletHMS Tamworth Castle
bulletHMS Tintagel
bulletHMS Walmer Castle
 

Royal Canadian Navy Corvettes

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Modified Flower Class Corvettes Built in Canadian Dockyards

bulletHMS Asbestos
bulletHMS Atholl
bulletHMS Belleville
bulletHMS Beauharnois
bulletHMS Comfrey
bulletHMS Cornel
bulletHMS Coubourg
bulletHMS Dittany
bulletHMS Fergus
bulletHMS Flax
bulletHMS Frontenac
bulletHMS Guelph
bulletHMS Honesty
bulletHMS Hawkesbury
bulletHMS Lachute
bulletHMS Louisburg
bulletHMS Linaria
bulletHMS Lindsay
bulletHMS Mandrake
bulletHMS Merrittonia
bulletHMS Milfoil
bulletHMS Musk
bulletHMS Nepeta
bulletHMS Norsyd