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
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The Colonial Despatches: Schedules
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Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer to Douglas, Sir James 2 September 1858, LAC
:, 26.
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The Colonial Despatches: Grenfell, Captain Sidney
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Schedules
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Romaine, William Govett to Merivale, Herman 26 August 1858, CO 6:25, no. 8646, 38.
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Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer to Douglas, Sir James 2 September 1858, LAC
:, 26.
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Douglas, Sir James to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 3 November 1858, CO 60:1,
no. 529, 338.