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HMS Scylla (1856)

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The arrival of the newly exiled Otho, ex-King of Greece, at Venice, 29 October 1862, in the Scylla, Captain Rowley Lambert. Edward William Cooke
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Scylla
Launched19 June 1856
Out of service1873
FateBroken up 1882
General characteristics
Class and typePearl-class corvette
Displacement2189 tons
Length200 ft
PropulsionScrew
Armament21 cannons
Scylla and the British Flying Squadron leaving False Bay, Cape of Good Hope on 18 October 1869

HMS Scylla was a wooden screw corvette launched at Sheerness Dockyard in 1856 and sold for breakup in 1882. She served in the Mediterranean from 1859 to 1863 and China from 1863 to 1867. In 1869 she joined the Flying Squadron, and then she was then deployed to the Pacific until 1873. She was broken up in 1882.[1]

References

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  1. ^ "Mid-Victorian RN vessel HMS Scylla". www.pdavis.nl.
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