Lily, 1889
Type: Sloop ; Armament 3
Launched : 16 Sep 18?? ; Disposal date or year : 16 Sep 1889
Disposal Details : Wrecked, in thick fog, off Point Amour Lighthouse, Labrador: 7 lives lost when one of the boats capsized. Com. Gerald Walter Russell
Displacement: 700 tons
Propulsion: Screw
Machinery notes: 829 hpi 95 hp
Notes:
3.8.1875 Commissioned at Devonport
1879 To be recommissioned at Hong Kong
1879 China
1881 Report on Proceedings of HMS Lily, 10 Feb 1881. ADM 1/6575.
Apr 1886 North America and West Indies
16 Sept. 1889 This URL provides a report of the wreck:
http://www.k12.nf.ca/stpauls/grassroots/arts/gr6/nbstory.html