Name |
No |
Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
Prince of Wales |
Portsmouth DYd | 10.6.1848 | 25.1.1860 | 1860 | sailing ship 1867, TS 3.1869 |
Displacement normal, t |
6201 |
Displacement full, t |
|
Length, m |
76.8 pp |
Breadth, m |
18.3 |
Draught, m |
7.67 hold depth |
No of shafts |
1 |
Machinery |
sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE, trunk |
Power, h. p. |
3352ihp |
Max speed, kts |
12.6 |
Fuel, t |
coal |
Endurance, nm(kts) | |
Armament |
1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt SBML, 62 x 1 - 204/13 8'' 65cwt shell SBML, 32 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 58cwt SBML, 26 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML |
Complement |
1100 |
Project history: Modified Queen class 1st rate 120-gun sailing ship (stretched Edye & Watts design), reordered as 121-gun screw ship 9.4.1856. Wooden hull.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: Prince of Wales was never fitted for sea, her engines were removed in 1867.
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