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![]() HMS Eurydice, painted by William Howard Yorke, Liverpool 1871
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Name | HMS Eurydice |
Namesake | The nymph Eurydice, wife of Orpheus |
Ordered | 27 August 1841 |
Builder | Portsmouth Dockyard |
Cost | £16,137, plus £9,312 for fitting out |
Laid down | April 1842 |
Launched | 16 May 1843 |
Completed | 1 September 1843 |
Commissioned | 27 June 1843 |
Recommissioned |
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Type | Corvette |
Tons burthen | 910 81/94 bm[1] |
Length | 141 ft 2 in (43.03 m) (gundeck)[1] 117 ft 9.75 in (35.9093 m) (keel) |
Beam | 38 ft 10 in (11.84 m) |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Complement | 190[1] |
Armament |
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HMS Eurydice was a 26-gun Royal Navy corvette which was the victim of one of Britain's worst peacetime naval disasters when she sank in 1878.
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