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BLACK PRINCE 3rd rate sailing ships-of-the-line (1816-1826)


Ships


Name

No

Yard No

Builder

Laid down

Launched

Comp

Fate

Black Prince     Woolwich DYd 7.1814 30.3.1816 29.8.1816 prison ship 1848
Wellesley     East India Co., Bombay 5.1813 24.2.1815 2.1825 TS 1862
Hawke     Woolwich DYd 4.1815 16.3.1820 25.5.1820 converted to screw blockship 4.1855, BU 1865
Melville     East India Co., Bombay 7.1815 17.2.1817 12.1826 hospital ship 3.1857


Technical data


Data variantsailing screw
Displacement normal, t

1738bm

2808

Displacement full, t   
Length, m

53.6 gundeck

53.7 gundeck

Breadth, m

14.5

14.8

Draught, m

6.40 hold depth

6.44 hold depth

No of shafts

 

1

Machinery

sails

sails + 1 2-cyl HSE (trunked)

Power, h. p. 

500ihp

Max speed, kts 

6.5

Fuel, t 

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)   
Armament

28 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr SBML, 28 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr SBML, 12 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML carronades, 6 x 1 - 139/8 18pdr SBML carronades, 6 x 1 - 118/14 12pdr SBML

4 x 1 - 254/11 10'' 85cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 4 x 1 - 204/15 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML, 24 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 26 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr 50cwt SBML

Complement

590

600



Project history

74-gun 3nd rate two-deckers. 1810 design to reduced lines of the Danish prize Christian VII taken in 1807. Built on Seppings' principles of diagonal framing.

Modernizations

1855, Hawke: was converted to 60-gun screw ship with data as given in the table

Naval service

No significant events.