|
Name |
No |
Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
| Formidable | Chatham DYd | 10.1819 | 19.5.1825 | 5.8.1825 | TS 7.1869 | ||
| Ganges | East India Co., Bombay | 5.1819 | 10.11.1821 | 7.1.1823 | TS 8.1865 | ||
| Powerful | Chatham DYd | 8.1820 | 21.6.1826 | 4.10.1826 | target ship 1860 | ||
| Vengeance | Pembroke DYd | 7.1819 | 27.7.1824 | 1824 | receiving ship 1861 | ||
| Monarch | Deptford DYd // Chatham DYd | 8.1825 | 8.12.1832 | 10.6.1833 | target ship 1862 | ||
| Thunderer | Woolwich DYd | 4.1823 | 22.9.1831 | 8.3.1833 | target ship 6.1863 | ||
| Asia | East India Co., Bombay | 1.1822 | 19.1.1824 | 1.1827 | HQ vessel 2.1864 | ||
| Bombay | East India Co., Bombay | 5.1826 | 17.2.1828 | 1828 | screw battleship 6.1861, fire 14.12.1864 | ||
| Clarence (ex-Goliath) | Pembroke DYd | 8.1824 | 25.7.1827 | 1827 | lent to Reformatory Society 1.1864 |
| Data variant | sailing |
Displacement normal, t |
Formidable, Ganges: 2255bm others: 2279bm |
Displacement full, t |
|
Length, m |
Formidable: 59.1 gundeck Ganges, Asia, Bombay: 59.8 gundeck others: 59.5 gundeck |
Breadth, m |
15.7 |
Draught, m |
6.86 depth hold |
No of shafts |
|
Machinery |
sails |
Power, h. p. |
|
Max speed, kts |
|
Fuel, t |
|
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
Armament |
32 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr SBML, 16 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML carronades, 38 x 1 - 148/18 24pdr SBML Vengeance: 4 x 1 - 204/12 68pdr SBML, 30 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr 49cwt SBML, 20 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML carronades, 28 x 1 - 148/18 24pdr SBML |
Complement |
700 |
Project history: 84-guns 2nd rate two-deckers. Design copied from Canopus (French prize Le Franklin, taken in 1798). This class went through a series of design modifications after the first ship was built.
Modernizations: 1861, Bombay: was converted to screw 81-guns 2nd rate two-decker with data as given in the table
| Data variant | screw |
Displacement normal, t |
2783bm |
Displacement full, t |
|
Length, m |
71.2 gundeck |
Breadth, m |
16.0 |
Draught, m |
7.04 hold depth |
No of shafts |
1 |
Machinery |
sails + 1 2-cyl HSE |
Power, h. p. |
1688ihp |
Max speed, kts |
10.2 |
Fuel, t |
coal |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
Armament |
1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt, 14 x 1 - 204/13 8'' 65cwt SBML, 24 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 30 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr 50cwt SBML, 12 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt |
Complement |
750 |
Naval service: Bombay burnt 14.12.1864 by accident off Montevideo.
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