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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

CRUISERS

PRESIDENT 4th rate sailing frigate (1834)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
President     Portsmouth DYd 6.1824 20.4.1829 26.5.1834 TS 10.1861

 

Displacement normal, t

1537bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

53.3 gundeck

Breadth, m

13.7

Draught, m

4.06 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

36 x 1 - 148/18 24pdr SBML, 16 x 1 - 147/11 24pdr SBML carronades

Complement

450

Project history: 60-gun 4th rate 24pdr frigate but completed with 52 guns only. 1818 design to lines of US prize President, taken in 1813.

Modernizations: 1840s: was armed with 32 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr SBML, 20 x 1 - 159/11 32pdr SBML carronades

Naval service: No significant events.

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