HMS Clio (1858)

HMS Clio (1858)

HMS "Clio" was a wooden warship, used for most of her life as a school ship.

"Clio" was built at Sheerness as a 200 foot (61 m) 22-gun Pearl class corvette and launched on August 28 1858. ["The Times (London)", Monday, August 30 1858, p.7] In 1877 she became a school ship, stationed on the Menai Strait at Bangor, and had 260 pupils. She was sold for scrap and broken up in 1919.

References

ee also

* HMS Conway (school ship)
* [http://www.trainingships.royalnavy.co.uk/names.htm Training Ships and Nautical Schools, 1700–2000]

External links

* [http://www.cpfinn.com/image_display.php?image_no=3&image_size=800&source_type=external Photograph of HMS Clio]
* [http://www.pdavis.nl/WoodScrew_107.htm Unarmoured wooden screw ships]


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