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| Name | Thalia (1869) | Explanation | |
| Type | Corvette | ||
| Launched | 14 July 1869 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | Length | 200 feet |
| Propulsion | Screw | Men | 200 |
| Builders measure | 1459 tons | ||
| Displacement | 2240 tons | ||
| Guns | 6 | ||
| Fate | 1920 | Last in commission | 1888 |
| Class | Juno | ||
| Ships book | ADM 135/472 | ||
| Career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 14 July 1869 | Launched at Woolwich Dockyard (last ship built there). | ||
| 26 March 1872 - 10 August 1876 | Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth until paying off) by Captain Henry Bedford Woollcombe, China | ||
| 10 January 1882 | Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth) by Captain Edmund John Church, to take a new crew to the Boadicea, at the Cape of Good Hope | ||
| 30 March 1882 - 2 June 1882 | Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain Frederick William Richards, returning home after paying off Boadicea at the Cape of Good Hope | ||
| 21 July 1882 - 18 July 1883 | Commanded (from commissioning until paying off at Plymouth) by Captain John William Brackenbury, Mediterranean (Egyptian war; the Urabi revolt, followed by British conquest of Egypt) , then taking replacement crews to China | ||
| 21 July 1882 - 23 October 1882 | Commanded by Captain Harry Holdsworth Rawson, for Transport Service | ||
| 27 April 1886 - 4 November 1886 | Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth) by Captain Day Hort Bosanquet, taking a new crew out to Opal, Australia | ||
| 4 November 1886 - 9 March 1887 | Commanded (until paying off) by Captain Arthur Thomas Brooke, returning the old crew of Opal, Australia | ||
| 12 May 1887 - 21 August 1888 | Commanded (from commissioning until paying off) by Captain John Robert Ebenezer Pattisson, taking new crews out to the Mediterranean and then to Australia | ||
| (1890) | Lent to War Department as Powder Hulk, Portsmouth. | ||
| (February 1915) | Base ship. | ||
| 16 September 1920 | Sold to Rose Street Foundry, Inverness for breaking up. | ||
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