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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

CRUISERS

RALEIGH 4th rate sailing frigates (1846)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Raleigh     Chatham DYd 8.1842 8.5.1845 25.4.1846 wrecked 14.4.1857
Severn     Chatham DYd 13.8.1849 24.1.1856 --- reordered as screw frigate 3.1859

 

Displacement normal, t

1944bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

54.9 gundeck

Breadth, m

15.2

Draught, m

5.08 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

28 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 22 x 1 - 161/16 32pdr 45cwt SBML

Complement

450

Project history: 50-gun 4th rate 32pdr frigate. John Fincham design, approved in 1842.

Modernizations: 1840s: - 8 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt; + 6 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML

Naval service: Raleigh wrecked 14.4.1857 on a rock off Hong Kong and beached off Macao.

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