|
Name |
No |
Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
| Hood (ex-Edgar) | Chatham DYd | 13.8.1849 | --- | --- | reordered as screw battleship 4.1856 | ||
| Orion | Chatham DYd | 1.2.1850 | --- | --- | reordered as screw battleship 10.1852 | ||
| Edgar | Pembroke DYd | 1850? | --- | --- | reordered as screw battleship 4.1851 |
Displacement normal, t |
2600bm |
Displacement full, t |
|
Length, m |
60.4 gundeck |
Breadth, m |
17.0 |
Draught, m |
7.11 hold depth |
No of shafts |
|
Machinery |
sails |
Power, h. p. |
|
Max speed, kts |
|
Fuel, t |
|
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
Armament |
12 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML, 20 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 24 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr 50cwt SBML, 24 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 41cwt SBML |
Complement |
720 |
Project history: 80-gun 2nd rate two-deckers. Edye and Watts design, approved in 1848. The last sailing battleships to be laid down for the RN.
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