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| Name | Tenedos (1870) | Explanation | |
| Type | Sloop (1876: Corvette) | ||
| Launched | 13 May 1870 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | Length | 212 feet |
| Propulsion | Screw | Men | 180 |
| Builders measure | 1275 tons | ||
| Displacement | 1755 tons | ||
| Guns | 6 | ||
| Fate | 1887 | Last in commission | 1886 |
| Class | Eclipse | ||
| Ships book | ADM 135/468 | ||
| Career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 13 May 1870 | Launched at Devonport Dockyard. | ||
| 9 July 1872 - 28 October 1874 | Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth) by Captain Edward Hood Lingard Ray, Pacific (until Ray invalided) | ||
| 28 October 1874 - 30 November 1876 | Commanded (until paying off at Plymouth) by Captain Edwin John Pollard, Pacific | ||
| 25 March 1878 - 6 December 1880 | Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth) by Captain Edward Stanley Adeane, Cape of Good Hope and west coast of Africa, then North America and West Indies | ||
| 2 November 1880 - 13 December 1882 | Commanded (until paying off at Antigua) by Captain Charles George Fane, North America and West Indies | ||
| 14 December 1882 - 8 January 1884 | Commanded (from commissioning at Antigua) by Captain Charles George Fane, North America and West Indies (senior officer on the Newfoundland fishery station) | ||
| 8 January 1884 - 3 July 1886 | Commanded (until paying off) by Captain Edmund Charles Drummond, North America and West Indies | ||
| November 1887 | Sold to G. Pethwick for breaking up at Plymouth | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Th 18 August 1870 | The Iron Duke, 14, left Keyham yesterday morning, and went round the Eddystone for the contractor's preliminary trial trip. The engines worked very satisfactorily, and on Thursday next the official trial will be made. The following ships are in the Keyham yard. The invincible, 14, is in dock to have her new twin screws fitted; these have been made at Keyham, and are of a different pitch to those she had previously. The fitting out of the Vanguard, 14, and Audacious, 14, is completed, and they are now ready for sea. The Narcissus, 35, flag-ship of the flying squadron, is having new boilers at Keyham, and will be ready for sea at the end of this month. The Lord Clyde, 24, is having her engines put on board; the new cylinders and pistons, and the greater portion of the machinery, has been made at Keyham. The Terrible, 19, is in dock repairing. The Topaze, 31, and Doris, 24, are receiving new boilers, with thorough repairs to machinery, and general refit of the ships. The new screw sloop Tenedos, 6, is in Keyham Basin, waiting to receive her machinery. | ||
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