HMS Modeste (1873)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Modeste.

HMS Modeste was a Amethyst-class corvette built for the Royal Navy in the early 1870s. She served in the Perak campaign in the 1870s.

Modeste, Yokohama, Japan in 1877
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Modeste
Builder	Devonport Dockyard
Cost	Approximately £77,000
Laid down	27 November 1871
Launched	23 May 1873
Completed	January 1874
Fate	Sold for scrap, 8 January 1888
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Amethyst-class wooden screw corvette
Displacement	1,934 long tons (1,965 t)
Tons burthen	1,405 bm
Length	220 ft (67.1 m) (p/p)
Beam	37 ft (11.3 m)
Draught	18 ft (5.5 m)
Installed power	2,068 ihp (1,542 kW)
Propulsion	1 shaft 1 × 2-cylinder compound expansion steam engine 6 cylindrical boilers
Sail plan	Ship rig
Speed	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Range	approximately 2,500 nmi (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	225
Armament	14 × 64-pounder 71-cwt rifled muzzle-loading (RML) guns

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