|
Name |
No |
Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
| Black Prince | Woolwich DYd | 7.1814 | 30.3.1816 | 29.8.1816 | prison ship 1848 | ||
| Wellesley | East India Co., Bombay | 5.1813 | 24.2.1815 | 2.1825 | TS 1862 | ||
| Hawke | Woolwich DYd | 4.1815 | 16.3.1820 | 25.5.1820 | converted to screw blockship 4.1855, BU 1865 | ||
| Melville | East India Co., Bombay | 7.1815 | 17.2.1817 | 12.1826 | hospital ship 3.1857 |
| Data variant | sailing |
Displacement normal, t |
1738bm |
Displacement full, t |
|
Length, m |
53.6 gundeck |
Breadth, m |
14.5 |
Draught, m |
6.40 hold depth |
No of shafts |
|
Machinery |
sails |
Power, h. p. |
|
Max speed, kts |
|
Fuel, t |
|
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
Armament |
28 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr SBML, 28 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr SBML, 12 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML carronades, 6 x 1 - 139/8 18pdr SBML carronades, 6 x 1 - 118/14 12pdr SBML |
Complement |
590 |
Project history: 74-gun 3nd rate two-deckers. 1810 design to reduced lines of the Danish prize Christian VII taken in 1807. Built on Seppings' principles of diagonal framing.
Modernizations: 1855, Hawke: was converted to 60-gun screw ship with data as given in the table
| Data variant | screw |
Displacement normal, t |
2808 |
Displacement full, t |
|
Length, m |
53.7 gundeck |
Breadth, m |
14.8 |
Draught, m |
6.44 hold depth |
No of shafts |
1 |
Machinery |
sails + 1 2-cyl HSE (trunked) |
Power, h. p. |
500ihp |
Max speed, kts |
6.5 |
Fuel, t |
coal |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
Armament |
4 x 1 - 254/11 10'' 85cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 4 x 1 - 204/15 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML , 24 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 26 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr 50cwt SBML |
Complement |
600 |
Naval service: No significant events.
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