|
Name |
No |
Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
| Albion | Plymouth DYd | 13.8.1839 | 6.9.1842 | 23.1.1844 | screw ship 5.1861, BU 8.1884 | ||
| Aboukir | Plymouth DYd | 8.1840 | 4.4.1848 | 19.4.1848 | screw ship 1.1858, sold 1878 | ||
| Exmouth | Plymouth DYd | 13.9.1841 | --- | --- | converted to screw battleship on the stocks | ||
| Princess Royal (ex-Prince Albert) | Portsmouth DYd | 2.1841 | --- | --- | re-ordered to new design 1847 | ||
| Hannibal | Woolwich DYd | 1841? | --- | --- | re-ordered to new design 1847 | ||
| Algiers | Plymouth DYd | 10.7.1843 | --- | --- | re-ordered to new design 1847 |
| Data variant | sailing |
Displacement normal, t |
3100bm |
Displacement full, t |
|
Length, m |
62.2 gundeck |
Breadth, m |
18.3 |
Draught, m |
7.21 hold depth |
No of shafts |
|
Machinery |
sails |
Power, h. p. |
|
Max speed, kts |
|
Fuel, t |
|
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
Armament |
4 x 1 - 206/16 68pdr 112cwt SBML, 6 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 204/12 68pdr 52cwt shell SBML, 54 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 24 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML |
Complement |
820 |
Project history: 90-gun 2nd rate two-deckers. Sir William Symonds design of 1839. Sister-ship St. Jean d'Acre was ordered in 1844 but suspended that year and later redesigned.
Modernizations: 1858, Aboukir; 1861, Albion: were converted to 91-gun screw ships with data as given in the table
| Data variant | screw |
Displacement normal, t |
4382 |
Displacement full, t |
|
Length, m |
62.2 pp 74.1 oa |
Breadth, m |
18.3 |
Draught, m |
7.21 hold depth |
No of shafts |
1 |
Machinery |
Aboukir: sails + 1 2-cyl HSE (trunked) Albion: sails + 1 2-cyl HSE |
Power, h. p. |
Aboukir: 1533ihp Albion: 1835ihp |
Max speed, kts |
Aboukir: 9.6 Albion: 11.0 |
Fuel, t |
coal |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
Armament |
1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 32 x 1 - 204/15 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML , 32 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 26 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML |
Complement |
830 |
Naval service: No significant events.
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