Preceded by Volage class Built 1871–75 | Succeeded by HMS Rover | |
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The Amethyst-class corvettes were the last wooden warships built at a royal dockyard. Built in the early 1870s, they mostly served overseas and were retired early as they were regarded as hopelessly obsolete by the late 1880s.
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