Name HMS Psyche Laid down 8 January 1861 Construction started 8 January 1861 Length 67 m | Ordered 1861 Commissioned 1862 Launched 29 March 1862 | |
Builder Pembroke Dockyard
Engines by John Penn and Sons Fate Wrecked on 15 December 1870
Wreck blown up in February 1871 | ||
HMS Psyche was a wooden Psyche-class paddle despatch vessel built to an 1860 design by Isaac Watts. She was ordered from Pembroke Dockyard in and launched on 29 March 1862, having cost c. £43,000 to build.
She was wrecked on 15 December 1870 off Catania, Italy, while carrying a party including George Howard Darwin to observe the solar eclipse from Sicily. Her wreck was blown up in February 1871.
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