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HMS Bacchante (1876)
HMS ''Bacchante'' was a ironclad screw-propelled corvette of the Royal Navy. She is particularly famous for being the ship on which the Princes George and Albert served as midshipmen.
''Bacchante'' was built at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 19 October 1876, the second ship of the three ship ''Bacchante'' class. She was armed with fourteen muzzle-loading rifle guns and two 64-pounder torpedo carriages, and rated at 4070 tons.
== Royal crew ==
The two oldest sons of the Prince of Wales had entered the navy in 1877, and by 1879 it had been decided by the Royal Family and the Government that the two should undertake a cruise. They were assigned to ''Bacchante'', which was then part of a squadron intended to patrol the sea lanes of the British Empire. Queen Victoria was concerned that the ''Bacchante'' might sink, drowning her grandchildren. Confident in their ship, the Admiralty sent ''Bacchante'' through a gale to prove she was sturdy enough to weather storms. The Princes, with their tutor John Neale Dalton, duly came aboard on 17 September 1879. The ''Bacchante'' was to be their home for the next three years.〔
They made a number of cruises to different parts of the Empire with the squadron. Serving aboard the squadron's flagship, at this time was their relation, Prince Louis of Battenberg. The squadron initially consisted of HMS ''Inconstant'', ''Bacchante'', and , the composition altering during the voyages as ships left, or were joined by new ones. ''Bacchante'' visited the Mediterranean and the West Indies, followed by later voyages to South America, South Africa, Australia, China and Japan.〔 The Princes made regular diary entries, which were later published as two volumes in 1886 as ''The Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship Bacchante''.〔 ''Bacchante'' briefly assisted in the First Boer War, before the squadron sailed again for Australia. Shortly after reaching the coast on 12 May, a heavy storm blew up and when it had abated, ''Bacchante'' was missing. After three days searching, news reached the squadron that ''Bacchante'' had had her rudder disabled, but had been able to reach safety at Albany.
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