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SHIPS-OF-THE-LINE, CAPITAL SHIPS & MONITORS

COLOSSUS 3rd rate sailing ships-of-the-line (1803-1808)

 

Name

No

Yard No

Builder

Laid down

Launched

Comp

Fate

Colossus     Deptford DYd 5.1799 23.4.1803 20.6.1803 BU 2.1826
Warspite     Chatham DYd 3.12.1805 16.11.1807 8.6.1808 frigate 9.1841, Marine Society TS 5.1862

 

Displacement normal, t

1881bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

54.9 gundeck

Breadth, m

14.9

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 - 162/17 32pdr SBML, 10 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML carronades, 36 x 1 - 148/18 24pdr SBML, 2 x 1 - 148/8 24pdr SBML carronades, 6 x 1 - 139/8 18pdr carronades

Complement

590

Project history: 74-guns two-deckers. Designed by Sir John Henslow.

Modernizations: 1815, Colossus: - 30 x 1 - 148/18 24pdr SBML; + 30 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr SBML

9/1841, Warspite: as 3rd rate 50-gun frigate: 54.9x15.1x4.14m, 1885bm; 6 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt SBML, 22 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 22 x 1 - 161/16 32pdr 45cwt

Naval service: No significant events.

 

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