Name |
No |
Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
Majestic | Chatham DYd | 2.1841 | 1.12.1853 | 22.4.1854 | Coast Guard 2.1860 | ||
Irresistible | Chatham DYd | 1.1.1849 | 27.10.1859 | 1.1860 | Coast Guard 4.1864 |
Displacement normal, t |
3482 |
Displacement full, t |
|
Length, m |
57.9 pp |
Breadth, m |
17.3 |
Draught, m |
7.11 hold depth |
No of shafts |
1 |
Machinery |
Majestic: sails + 1 2-cyl HSE Irresistible: sails + 1 2-cyl HSE (trunked) |
Power, h. p. |
Majestic: 1192ihp Irresistible: 1461ihp |
Max speed, kts |
Majestic: 8.8 Irresistible: 8.6 |
Fuel, t |
coal |
Endurance, nm(kts) | |
Armament |
14 x 1 - 204/15 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML , 18 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 24 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr 50cwt SBML, 24 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML |
Complement |
750 |
Project history: Conversion of 80-gun 3rd rate (incomplete on stocks), design of 1852. Ordered as Vanguard class sailing 80-gun ships. Wooden hull.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: No significant events.
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