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HMS Sandfly (1872)

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Name
  
HMS Sandfly

Type
  
Beagle-class schooner

Beam
  
18 ft 6 in (5.6 m)

Launched
  
5 December 1872

Builder
  
Millers Point

Fate
  
Sold in 1883 to Samoa.

Tons burthen
  
120 bm

Depth of hold
  
8 ft 6 in (2.59 m)

Length
  
23 m

HMS Sandfly was a schooner of the Royal Navy, built by John Cuthbert, Millers Point, New South Wales and launched on 5 December 1872. She commenced service on the Australia Station at Sydney in 1873 for anti-blackbirding operations in the South Pacific. She also undertook hydrographic surveys in the Solomon Islands and in New Guinea. Lieutenant Bower and five crew were massacred by natives on the island of Mandoliana, part of the Nggela Islands (then known as the Floridsa), in October 1880, with a punitive mission undertaken afterwards. She was paid off in 1883 and sold to Samoa.

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