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| Name | Druid (1869) | Explanation | |
| Type | Corvette | ||
| Launched | 13 March 1869 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | Length | 220 feet |
| Propulsion | Screw | Men | 220 |
| Builders measure | |||
| Displacement | 1791 tons | ||
| Guns | 10 | ||
| Fate | 1886 | Last in commission | 1882 |
| Class | Briton | ||
| Ships book | ADM 135/140 | ||
| Career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 13 March 1869 | Launched at Deptford Dockyard (last ship built there). | ||
| 15 February 1872 - 28 March 1873 | Commanded (from commissioning at Sheerness) by Captain Maurice Horatio Nelson, west coast of Africa | ||
| 28 March 1873 - 27 January 1874 | Commanded by Captain William Hans Blake, west coast of Africa (until he died) | ||
| February 1874 - May 1874 | Commanded by Acting Captain Percy Patt Luxmoore, west coast of Africa, then Sheerness | ||
| May 1874 - 14 December 1876 | Commanded by Captain Arthur George Robertson Roe, North America and West Indies | ||
| 18 February 1879 - 1 September 1882 | Commanded (from commissioning at Sheerness until paying off at Sheerness) by Captain William Robert Kennedy, North America and West Indies | ||
| 10 November 1886 | Sold to Castle for breaking up at Charlton. | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Tu 2 March 1880 | The following Information respecting the movements of Her Majesty’s ships is supplied by the Admiralty The Raleigh arrived at Madeira on the 28th of February; all well. The Comus and the Dido arrived at Simon’s Bay on the 29th of February; all well. From Jamaica.— Letters have been received from Commodore Ward up to the 8th of February. The Druid, sailed for Belize and coast of Cuba on the 26th of January. The Flamingo, after visiting the island ports, would join the Admiral on the 1st of March. The Sparrowhawk, after refit, resumed surveying duties on the 31st of January. The Plover arrived on the 7th of February from Bermuda. From Trinidad.— Letters have been received from Vice-Admiral Sir F.L. M’Clintock; arrived in the Northampton on the 7th of February, having left Barbados, with the Tourmaline in company on the 5th of February; would leave on the 13th of February for Grenada, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, and Antigua. | ||
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