|
Name |
No |
Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
| Cumberland | Chatham DYd | 4.1836 | 21.10.1842 | 7.12.1842 | sheer hulk 4.1863 | ||
| Boscawen | Woolwich DYd | 1.1826 | 3.4.1844 | 26.9.1848 | drill ship 2.1862 |
Displacement normal, t |
2212bm |
Displacement full, t |
|
Length, m |
54.9 gundeck |
Breadth, m |
16.5 |
Draught, m |
6.81 hold depth |
No of shafts |
|
Machinery |
sails |
Power, h. p. |
|
Max speed, kts |
|
Fuel, t |
|
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
Armament |
6 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt SBML, 22 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 26 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr 50cwt SBML, 12 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt, 4 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr 10cwt SBML |
Complement |
620 |
Project history: 70-gun 3nd rate two-deckers. William Symonds design of 1833. Boscawen was originally ordered as a member of 74-gun Armada class in 1812 but was reordered to new 80-gun design in 1817 and began building as such in 1826 but cancelled in 1831 and reordered again as 50-gun frigate Indefatigable in 1832 before finally reordered as a 70-gun ship.
Modernizations: 1850s, both: - 4 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr 10cwt; + 4 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML
Naval service: No significant events.
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