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Victorian-era corvettes of the United Kingdom (3 C, 45 P) Pages in category "Victorian-era corvettes" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
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See list of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy for the full list. ... (1770) HMS Kingfisher (1782) HMS Kingfisher (1804) L. HMS Lightning (1806)
French corvette Diligent (1781) French corvette Diligente (1794) French corvette Dragon; E. French ship Éole (1799) HMS Esperance (1795) French corvette Etna (1795)
An unidentified member of the Aurora class, date unknown. Like other major navies in the 1850s, the Austrian Navy began building a series of screw frigates and corvettes (and converting existing vessels to steam power), but unlike their foreign contemporaries, the Austrian Empire neither had or sought an overseas colonial empire.
The Briton-class corvettes were designed by Sir Edward Reed, the Director of Naval Construction, as lengthened versions of the Eclipse-class sloops. [1] Like the smaller ships, they had a ram-style bow to reduce weight forward by elimination of the knee above the stem. Similarly, he shortened the counter at the stern to save weight. [2]
The 1770s (pronounced "seventeen-seventies") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1770, and ended on December 31, 1779. A period full of discoveries, breakthroughs happened in all walks of life, as what emerged at this period brought life to most innovations we know today.