HMS Eurydice (1843)
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HMS Eurydice was a 26-gun Royal Navy corvette which was the victim of one of Britain's worst peacetime naval disasters when she sank in a snowstorm off the Isle of Wight on 24 March 1878. Out of a cre
HMS Eurydice, painted by William Howard Yorke, Liverpool 1871
The Wreck of the Eurydice
Wreck of Eurydice being towed into Portsmouth Harbour, 1 September 1878
HMS Atalanta. The Graphic 1880
HMS Juno (1844)
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HMS Juno was a 26-gun Spartan-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy launched in 1844 at Pembroke. As HMS Juno, she carried out the historic role in 1857 of annexing the Cocos Islands to the Briti
HMS Eurydice (1843)
…However, she was immediately replaced by another 26-gun frigate of identical tonnage but slightly less radical hull-lines, HMS Juno. Juno was renamed HMS Atalanta and made two successful voyages between England and the West Indies before also disappearing at sea on her crossing the North Atlantic from Bermuda in…
A Royal Navy service record from the last completed training mission before Atalanta's loss