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SHIPS-OF-THE-LINE, CAPITAL SHIPS & MONITORS

SAINT GEORGE 1st rate sailing ships-of-the-line (1832-1842)

 

Name

No

Yard No

Builder

Laid down

Launched

Comp

Fate

Saint George     Plymouth DYd 5.1827 27.8.1840 1840 screw ship 7.1859, sold 11.1883
Neptune     Portsmouth DYd 1.1827 27.9.1832 12.1832 screw ship 81859, sold 1.1875
Royal William     Pembroke DYd 10.1825 2.4.1833 1834 screw ship 2.1860, TS 11.1884
Waterloo, 2.1862- Conqueror     Chatham DYd 3.1827 10.6.1833 7.1833 screw ship 4.1860, Marine Society TS 8.1876
Trafalgar     Woolwich DYd 12.1829 21.6.1841 6.10.1842 screw ship 8.1859, TS 8.1870, training hulk 2.1873

 

Data variant sailing

Displacement normal, t

2694bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

62.6 gundeck

Breadth, m

16.6

Draught, m

7.06 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 
Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

6 x 1 - 204/8 68pdr SBML carronades, 30 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 32 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 55cwt SBML, 34 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr 49cwt SBML, 18 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML carronades

Complement

900

Project history: 120-guns three-deckers. Broadened 1819 version of Caledonia class to carry increased weight of guns.

Modernizations: 1850s, all: - 6 x 1 - 204/8 68pdr SBML carronades, 6 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr 49cwt SBML, 14 x 1 - 159/12 32pdr 25cwt SBML carronades; + 4 x 1 - 204/12 8'' 56cwt SBML

1859, Neptune, Trafalgar, Saint George; 1860, Waterloo, Royal William: were converted to screw ships-of-the-line with data as given in the table

 

Data variant screw

Displacement normal, t

Neptune: 3405

Trafalgar: 3850

Saint George: 4213

Waterloo: 3440

Royal William: 3520

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

Neptune, Saint George: 66.0 pp

Trafalgar: 65.8 pp

Waterloo: 66.5 pp

Royal William: 66.1

Breadth, m

St. George, Neptune, Royal William, Trafalgar: 16.9

Waterloo: 16.8

Draught, m

Neptune, Trafalgar: 7.06 hold depth

Saint George: 7.24 hold depth

Waterloo: 7.12 hold depth

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 2-cyl HSE

Power, h. p.

St. George: 1730hp

Royal William: 1763ihp

Neptune: 1910ihp

Waterloo: 1890ihp

Trafalgar: 2275ihp

Max speed, kts

St. George, Trafalgar: 10.9

Royal William: 10.6

Neptune: 11.2

Waterloo: 11.3

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 206/15 SBML 68pdr 95cwt, 32 x 1 - 204/13 8'' 65cwt shell SBML , 34 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 22 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML

Complement

830

Naval service: No significant events.

 

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