A wooden screw corvette (sometimes given as frigate) built under yard No 351 by R&H Green, Blackwall, London for the Portuguese Government.
15 August 1859 launched under the name ESTEFÅNIA (some sources give DONA ESTEPHANIA, or ESTEPHANIA.)
Tonnage 2,369 tons, dim. 202 x 41 x 23ft.
Armament 21 – 7.7 cm guns, after 1892; 1 – 17.8 cm and 8 – 12.7 cm guns.
An other source gives 28 guns.
Powered by a steamengine 400 nhp., speed 10 knots. Engine manufactured by Ravenhill Salkeld of Limehouse, U.K.
Full rigged.
The Liverpool Underwriters Register gives her as 1,536 gross tons. The listing implies a merchant vessel, or perhaps an auxiliary rather than a warship.
1860 Used during an expedition to Angola.
1862 In reserve.
From 07 May 1898 used as stationary school-ship. In 1907 without engine and an armament of 3 guns.
She sank in the River Douro on 22 December 1909.
The uniform is that of a sailor of 1845.
Portugal 1983 25e sg1909, scott1560
Source: Navicula, MARHST-List Mike’s Library and Dr. Ian I Buxton.