page_title: HMS Swallow (1885)
hierarchical_section_title: HMS Swallow (1885)
caption_attribution_description: English: HMS 'Beagle', HMS 'Swallow', 'Basilisk' and 'Flora', by unknown artist. National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth. Note on dates: HMS Flora (1893), was commissioned 24 July 1895. HMS Swallow (1885) was a Nymphe-class sloop launched in 1885 and sold in 1904.
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: HMS Beagle, Swallow, Basilisk and Flora, unknown artist
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