HMS Bacchante (1876)
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Bacchante |
| Namesake | Bacchus |
| Builder | Portsmouth Dockyard |
| Launched | 19 October 1876 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap in 1897 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Bacchante-class corvette |
| Displacement | 4,070 tons |
| Tons burthen | 2,679 tons |
| Length | 280 ft (85 m) |
| Beam | 45.5 ft (13.9 m) |
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HMS Bacchante was a
Bacchante was built at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 19 October 1876, the second ship of the three ship Bacchante class.[1] She was armed with fourteen 7-inch (177.8 mm) muzzle-loading rifle guns and two 64-pounder torpedo carriages, and rated at 4070 tons.[2]
Royal crew
The two oldest sons of the
They made a number of cruises to different parts of the Empire with the squadron. Serving aboard the squadron's
Of note during this time, the Bacchante briefly assisted in the First Boer War, before the squadron sailed again for Australia. Shortly after reaching the coast on 12 May, a heavy storm blew up and when it had abated, Bacchante was missing. After three days searching, news reached the squadron that Bacchante had had her rudder disabled, but had been able to reach safety at Albany.[8]
Later career
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Bacchante eventually returned to England in August 1882 and discharged her young Royal midshipmen.[3] By then she had covered 40,000 miles, mostly under sail, and had rounded the Cape of Good Hope twice.[9] She became the only British vessel in which two grandsons of the reigning monarch served at the same time.[9] Bacchante was then paid off and underwent a long refit, which saw her being partially rearmed. She was then dispatched to the East Indies to relieve her sister, HMS Euryalus, as flagship on the station.[9] Bacchante served during the Third Anglo-Burmese War in 1885, transferring three-quarters of her complement to serve on gunboats on the Irrawaddy River or in the suppression of banditry.[9] She returned to Britain in 1888 and was placed in reserve. She was sold to the shipbreakers Cohen in 1897, and scrapped.[1]
References
- ^ a b Colledge. Ships of the Royal Navy. p. 28.
- ISBN 0-7270-1201-0.
- ^ a b c d Gordon. Royal Education. p. 169.
- ^ Carlton. Royal Warriors. p. 151.
- ^ Scott. Fifty Years in the Navy. p. 35.
- ^ Windsor, Prince Albert Victor; Wales, Prince George; Dalton, John N. (1886). The Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship "Bacchante" 1879-1882. London: MacMillan and Co.
- ^ "Royal Collection Trust". Retrieved 16 September 2021.
- ^ Scott. Fifty Years in the Navy. p. 39.
- ^ a b c d Dixon. Ships of the Victorian Navy. p. 20.
Bibliography
- ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- Carlton, Charles (2003). Royal Warriors: A Military History of the British Monarchy. Pearson Education. ISBN 1-77007-303-5.
- Dixon, Conrad (1987). Ships of the Victorian Navy. Southampton: Ashford Press Publishing. ISBN 1-85253-024-3.
- Gordon, Peter (2003). Royal Education: Past, Present, and Future. Routledge. ISBN 0-582-47265-2.
- Hopkins, Pat (2006). Ghosts of South Africa. Zebra. ISBN 0-7146-8386-8.
- Percy, Scott (2008). Fifty Years in the Royal Navy. Read Books. ISBN 978-1-4097-0341-9.
- Windsor, Prince Albert Victor; Wales, Prince George; Dalton, John N. (1886). The Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship "Bacchante" 1879-1882. London: MacMillan and Co.
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