HMS Scylla (1856)

The arrival of the newly exiled Otho, ex-King of Greece, at Venice, 29 October, 1862, in the Scylla, Captain Rowley Lambert. Edward William Cooke
History
United Kingdom
Class and type	Corvette
Name	HMS Scylla
Launched	19 June 1856
Out of service	1873
Fate	Broken up 1882
General characteristics
Class and type	Pearl-class corvette
Displacement	2189 tons
Length	200 ft
Propulsion	Screw
Armament	21 cannons

Scylla and the British Flying Squadron leaving False Bay, Cape of Good Hope on 18 October 1869

HMS Scylla was a wooden screw corvette launched at Sheerness Dockyard in 1856 and sold for breakup in 1882. She served in the Mediterranean from 1859 to 1863 and China from 1863 to 1867. In 1869 she joined the Flying Squadron, and then she was then deployed to the Pacific until 1873. She was broken up in 1882.^[1]

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