Ship Details
Rig
Jason-class Corvette
Built
1860
Built In
Tonnage
1706
Demise
wrecked on 7/2/1863 on West Coast of Auckland;
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Description
HMS Orpheus (named after the Greek hero) was a Jason-class corvette, a screw-driven vessel built in Chatham Dockyard in Kent, England, in 1861. She was owned by the Royal Navy, and was 69 metres long with a crew of 259.
Orpheus was commanded by Captain Robert Heron Burton. She displayed a broad pennant to indicate that Commodore William Farquharson Burnett, senior officer of HM ships and vessels on the Australian and New Zealand Stations, was also on board.
She was wrecked when delivering naval supplies and troop reinforcements to Auckland for the New Zealand land wars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Orpheus_(1860) (accessed on 29/6/2018;
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