|
Name |
No |
Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
| Orion | Chatham DYd | 1.2.1850 | 6.11.1854 | 29.3.1855 | sold 1867 | ||
| Hood (ex-Edgar) | Chatham DYd | 13.8.1849 | 4.5.1859 | 15.6.1859 | hulk 1872 |
Displacement normal, t |
3202bm |
Displacement full, t |
|
Length, m |
72.5 pp |
Breadth, m |
17.0 |
Draught, m |
7.32 hold depth |
No of shafts |
1 |
Machinery |
sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE, trunk |
Power, h. p. |
Orion: 2329ihp Hood: 2385ihp |
Max speed, kts |
Orion: 11.5 Hood: 11.8 |
Fuel, t |
coal |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
Armament |
1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 34 x 1 - 204/15 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML, 34 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 22 x 1 - 161/16 32pdr 45cwt SBML |
Complement |
860 |
Project history: Conversion of 80-gun 2nd rates (incomplete on stocks) to 91-gun screw ships, Surveyor's Department design of 1852. Ordered in 1848 as sailing 80-gun ships. Wooden hull.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: No significant events.
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