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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

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SOUTHAMPTON 4th rate sailing frigates (1821-1844)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Southampton     Deptford DYd 3.1817 7.11.1820 11.5.1821 Coastguard 1857
Portland (ex-Kingston)     Plymouth DYd 8.1817 8.5.1822 20.8.1833 provision depot 1846-1850, sold 5.1862
Lancaster     Plymouth DYd 18.7.1818 23.8.1823 8.10.1823 sold 2.1864
Winchester     Woolwich DYd 11.1818 21.6.1822 16.9.1822 TS 11.1861
Chichester     Woolwich DYd 7.1827 12.7.1843 23.2.1844 TS 1866
Worcester     Deptford DYd 12.1820 10.10.1843 11.1843 TS 1862

 

Displacement normal, t

1468bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

52.4 gundeck

Breadth, m

13.5

Draught, m

4.42 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

16 x 1 - 176/8 42pdr SBML carronades, 36 x 1 - 148/15 24pdr SBML

Worcester: 4 x 1 - 204/13 8'' shell SBML, 30 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr SBML, 16 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 114/18 12pdr SBML

Complement

450

Project history: 24pdr 60-gun frigates but completed with 52 guns only. Surveyor's design, approved in 1816. Liverpool and Jamaica were cancelled in 1829.

Modernizations: 1840s, all: were rearmed with 4 x 1 - 204/13 8'' shell SBML, 46 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr SBML

Naval service: No significant events.

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