HMS Psyche (1862)

HMS Psyche was a wooden Psyche-class paddle despatch vessel built to an 1860 design by Isaac Watts.

She was ordered from Pembroke Dockyard in and launched on 29 March 1862, having cost c. £43,000 to build.

She was at Suez for the opening ceremonies of the canal in 1869.

[1] She was wrecked on 15 December 1870 off Catania, Italy, while carrying a party including George Howard Darwin to observe the solar eclipse from Sicily.

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