HMS amethystAmethyst, 1844-1869
amethystAmethyst was a sixth-rate Royal Navy ship, commanded by Captain Sidney Grenfell during her time in the Pacific.1 It was involved in the second Anglo-Chinese War, or Opium War.2
In this 1858 despatch, Douglas acknowledges with satisfaction that the amethystAmethyst is on route, with the tribuneTribune and pyladesPylades, from the East Indies to Vancouver Island, with a compliment of “Supernumerary Marines” aboard.
The amethystAmethyst carried 26 guns, was 40 m long, 12.5 m wide, and built at Plymouth dockyard; the Navy sold it for use as a cable vessel in 1869.3
  • 1. Peter Davis, HMS Amethyst, William Loney RN—Ships.
  • 2. Ibid.
  • 3. J. J. Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy (Devon: David & Charles: Newton Abbot, 1969), 1:39.
Mentions of this vessel in the documents
The Colonial Despatches Team. HMS Amethyst, 1844-1869. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. The Colonial Despatches Team. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/amethyst.html.

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