NAVYPEDIA

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 variant	sailing	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.