HMS Thetis (1871) explained

HMS Thetis was a wooden screw corvette built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s.

History

Thetis was driven ashore in 1874 whilst on duty in the East Indies. It was reported that she would be repaired at Bombay, India or Trincomalee, Ceylon.^[1] On 10 March 1879, she was damaged by fire at Keyham, Devon.^[2] The fire was caused by improper storage of materials on board which spontaneously combusted. Damage amounted to £4,000 worth of stores lost and £1,000 worth to the ship.^[3] She was present at the Bay of Pisagua when Chilean troops captured the port on 2 November 1879, during the Tarapaca Campaign.^[4]

Bibliography

• Ballard. G. A.. 1938. British Corvettes of 1875: The Larger Ram-Bowed Type. Mariner's Mirror. Society for Nautical Research. Cambridge, UK. 24. 81–94. January.
• Book: Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. Chesneau. Roger. Kolesnik. Eugene M.. Conway Maritime Press. Greenwich, UK. 1979. 0-8317-0302-4. registration.

External links

• • Thetis at William Loney website
• Thetis at the Naval Database website

Notes and References

1. News: Shipping Disasters . Liverpool Mercury . Liverpool . 25 November 1874 . 8378 .
2. News: An English Man-of-War on Fire . Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough . Middlesbrough . 11 March 1879 . 3659 .
3. News: The Fire on Board H.M.S. Thetis . Aberdeen Journal . Aberdeen . 14 March 1879 . 7509 .
4. Web site: Covadonga, Cochrane, Thetis, Angamos y Amazonas en Pisagua 1879 . archivo.mmn.cl .