Name |
No |
Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
Bulwark | Chatham DYd | 8.3.1859 | --- | --- | cancelled 8.1872 | ||
Repulse | Woolwich DYd | 29.4.1859 | --- | --- | built as ironclad since 14.5.1861 | ||
Zealous | Pembroke DYd | 26.10.1859 | --- | --- | built as ironclad since 2.7.1862 | ||
Robust | Devonport DYd | 31.10.1859 | --- | --- | cancelled 8.1872 | ||
Royal Alfred | Portsmouth DYd | 1.12.1859 | --- | --- | built as ironclad since 5.6.1861 | ||
Royal Oak | Chatham DYd | 1.5.1860 | --- | --- | built as ironclad since 14.5.1861 | ||
Triumph | Pembroke DYd | 13.8.1860 | --- | --- | built as ironclad Prince Consort since 31.5.1861 | ||
Kent | Portsmouth DYd | 13.6.1860 | --- | --- | cancelled 12.1863 | ||
Ocean | Devonport DYd | 23.8.1860 | --- | --- | built as ironclad since 5.6.1861 | ||
Caledonia | Woolwich DYd | 1.10.1860 | --- | --- | built as ironclad since 31.5.1861 |
Displacement normal, t |
5706 |
Displacement full, t |
|
Length, m |
76.8 pp |
Breadth, m |
17.7 |
Draught, m |
7.77 hold depth |
No of shafts |
1 |
Machinery |
sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE |
Power, h. p. |
800nhp |
Max speed, kts |
|
Fuel, t |
coal |
Endurance, nm(kts) | |
Armament |
1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 34 x 1 - 204/15 8'' 65cwt shell SBML, 36 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 58cwt SBML, 20 x 1 - 161/16 32pdr 42cwt SBML |
Complement |
860 |
Project history: New 91-gun ships. Surveyor's Department design of 1858. Seven ships were completed as ironclads, others were cancelled. Unstarted Blake and Pitt were also cancelled in 1862. Developed from 101-gun Duncan class with new timbering plan. Robust originally was ordered as 100-gun ship, then in 1858 she was altered to 91-gun. Wooden hull.
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