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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Windsor Castle (ex-Victoria)		145	Pembroke DYd // Devonport DYd	5.1844	26.8.1858	2.2.1859	gunnery TS 1.1869

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	4971
Displacement full, t
Length, m	62.2 pp
Breadth, m	18.3
Draught, m	7.24 hold depth
No of shafts	1
Machinery	sails + boilers, 1 2cyl HSE, trunk
Power, h. p.	2052ihp
Max speed, kts	11
Fuel, t	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 30 x 1 - 204/13 8'' 65cwt shell SBML, 30 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 40 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML
Complement	930

Project history

Classical 120-gun sailing British ship-of-the-line, converted to steam power on the stocks as 116-gun 1st rates. Originally she was begun as Queen class 110-gun sailing ship. Poor seakeeping qualities of Windsor Castle became apparent during trials, and she had no sea service. It also became a reason to convert her sister-ship Royal Frederick as two-deck steamer. Windsor Castle was rated initially as 120-gun, later 116-gun but was completed with 102 guns. Wooden hull.

Modernizations

1862: - 2 x 1 - 206/15, 14 x 1 - 161/15; + 1 x 1 - 183/17 110pdr 82cwt BL, 4 x 1 - 160/15 70pdr 42cwt BL, 6 x 1 - 121/21 40pdr 35cwt BL

Naval service

No significant events.

Thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.