HMS Cleopatra (1878)
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HMS Cleopatra was a Royal Navy Comus-class screw corvette built in 1878.
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Cleopatra saluting the Brazilian flag at Rio de Janeiro in 1890, the formal recognition of the Republic of Brazil by Great Britain | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Cleopatra |
Builder | John Elder & Co Govan[1] |
Yard number | 209[1] |
Launched | 1 August 1878[1] |
Name | HMS Defiance III[1] |
Renamed | 1922[1] |
Fate | Sold for scrap to S Castle, Millbay, July 1931[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Comus-class corvette |
Displacement | 2,380 long tons (2,420 t)[1] |
Length | 225 ft (69 m)[1] |
Beam | 44 ft 6 in (13.6 m)[1] |
Draught | 19 ft 6 in (6 m)[1] |
Propulsion | Sail, engines by Humphrys, Tennant & Co.[1] |
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