HMS Psyche (1862)

HMS Psyche was a wooden Psyche-class paddle despatch vessel built to an 1860 design by Isaac Watts. She was ordered from Pembroke Dockyard in and launched on 29 March 1862, having cost c. £43,000 to build.

History
UK
Name: HMS Psyche
Ordered: 1861
Builder:
Laid down: 8 January 1861
Launched: 29 March 1862
Commissioned: 1862
Fate:
  • Wrecked on 15 December 1870
  • Wreck blown up in February 1871
General characteristics
Class and type: Psyche-class paddle despatch vessel
Displacement: 985 long tons (1,001 t)
Tons burthen: 835 bm
Length: 220 ft (67 m)
Beam: 28 ft 2 in (8.59 m)
Depth of hold: 14 ft 6 in (4.42 m)
Installed power: 1,440 ihp (1,070 kW)
Propulsion: 2-cylinder oscillating steam engine
Armament: 2 × 20 pdr (9.1 kg) guns

She was wrecked on 15 December 1870 off Catania, Italy, while carrying a party including George Howard Darwin to observe the solar eclipse from Sicily. Her wreck was blown up in February 1871.

References

  • Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
  • Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6.


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