# Eclipse-class sloop

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Not to be confused with [Eclipse-class cruiser](/source/Eclipse-class_cruiser).

The ***Eclipse* class** was a [class](/source/Ship_class) of seven 6-gun wooden screw [sloops](/source/Sloop-of-war) built for the [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy) between 1867 and 1870. They were re-armed and re-classified as 12-gun [corvettes](/source/Corvette) in 1876. Two further vessels were proposed but never ordered.

## Design

A development of the [*Amazon*-class sloop](/source/Amazon-class_sloop), they were designed by [Edward Reed](/source/Edward_James_Reed), the Royal Navy's [Director of Naval Construction](/source/Director_of_Naval_Construction). The hull was of wooden construction, but with iron cross-beams, and a [ram bow](/source/Ram_bow) was fitted.[1]

### Propulsion

Propulsion was provided by a two-cylinder horizontal steam engine driving a single screw. *Spartan*, *Sirius* and *Tenedos* had compound steam engines, and the remainder of the class had single-expansion steam engines.

### Sail plan

All the ships of the class were built with a [ship rig](/source/Ship_rig), but this was replaced with a [barque](/source/Barque) rig.

### Armament

The *Eclipse* class was designed with two 7-inch (6½-ton) muzzle-loading rifled guns mounted in traversing slides and four 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns.[1] They were re-classified as corvettes in 1876, carrying a homogenous armament of twelve 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns.

## Ships

Name Ship Builder Launched Fate HMS Danae Portsmouth Dockyard 21 May 1867 Lent to the War Department as a hulk in 1886 and sold on 15 May 1906[1] HMS Blanche Chatham Dockyard 17 August 1867 Sold to Castle for breaking in September 1886 HMS Eclipse Sheerness Dockyard 14 November 1867 Lent to the War Department for use as a storage hulk between 1888 and 1892. Anchored in the Hamoaze as a floating magazine and No. 3 (Devonport) Division, Metropolitan Police barracks on census night in 1911. Sold in 1921.[1] HMS Sirius Portsmouth Dockyard 24 April 1868 Sold to Castle for breaking at Charlton in 1885[1] HMS Spartan Deptford Dockyard 14 November 1868 Sold to Castle for breaking on 7 November 1882[1] HMS Dido Portsmouth Dockyard 23 October 1869 Hulked in 1886. Renamed Actaeon II in 1906. Sold to J B Garnham for breaking on 17 July 1922[1] HMS Tenedos Devonport Dockyard 13 May 1870 Sold to G Pethwick of Plymouth for breaking in November 1887[1] Proserpine - - Authorised on 18 December 1866 but never ordered[1] Diomede - - Authorised on 18 December 1866 but rescinded on 30 April 1867[1]

## Notes

1. Winfield, pp. 290–91

## Bibliography

- Ballard, G. A. (1938). "British Sloops of 1875: The Smaller Ram-Bowed Type". *Mariner's Mirror*. **24** (April): 160–75. Cambridge, UK: Society for Nautical Research.
- [*Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905*](https://archive.org/details/conwaysallworlds0000unse_l2e2). Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. 1979. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.

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