HMS Swallow (1885)
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HMS Swallow was a Nymphe-class composite screw sloop and the twenty-seventh ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name. Developed and constructed for the Royal Navy on a design by William Henry White, Director of Naval Construction, she was launched at Sheerness Dockyard on 27 October 1885.[http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/naval_sloops_.htm Naval sloops]
Service history
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On 17 November 1886,{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval and Military Intelligence |date=23 November 1886 |issue=31924 |page=7 |column=C }} Swallow ran aground off Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. She was refloated and taken in to Plymouth, Devon, where she arrived on 20 November.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval and Military Intelligence |date=22 November 1886 |issue=31923 |page=10 |column=B }} She was engaged in East Africa in the expedition against Fumo Amari, who was the Sultan of Wituland (in modern-day Kenya). The expedition resulted in the capture of Pumwani and Jongeni, between 7 and 13 August 1893.{{Cite book |last=Moyse-Bartlett |first=Lieutenant-Colonel H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q3C-BAAAQBAJ&dq=pumwani+jongeni+august+1893&pg=PA98 |title=The King's African Rifles - Volume 1 |date=2012-02-10 |publisher=Andrews UK Limited |isbn=978-1-78150-661-5 |language=en}}
The Ashantee Medal was awarded to those who were employed on her together with the clasp "Witu 1893".THE LONDON GAZETTE, MARCH 20, 1906 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27896/page/1971/data.pdf
Swallow was commissioned by commander Edward Fitzmaurice Inglefield in 1899 to serve on the South America Station. She was in Montevideo in late February 1900, and visited the Falkland Islands the following month.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence|date=27 February 1900 |page=6 |issue=36076}}
Fate
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Category:Ships built in Sheerness
Category:Victorian-era sloops of the United Kingdom
Category:Maritime incidents in November 1886
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