Amazon-class sloop

	HMS Dryad at anchor, with sails airing
Class overview
Name	Amazon-class sloops
Builders	Pembroke Dockyard; Devonport Dockyard;
Operators	Royal Navy
Built	1865–1866
In commission	1865–1885
Completed	6
Lost	2
General characteristics
Type	Screw sloop
Displacement	1574 tons
Length	187 ft (57 m)
Beam	36 ft (11 m)
Draught	17 ft (5.2 m)
Installed power	300 horsepower
Propulsion	Single screw; Two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine;
Sail plan	Barque
Complement	150
Armament	As built:; 2 × 7-inch (6½-ton) muzzle-loading rifled guns; 2 × 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns; As converted (Dryad, Nymphe & Vestal):; 9 × 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns;

The Amazon class was a class of six screw sloops of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy between 1865 and 1866.

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