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UNITED KINGDOM
BRUNSWICK 2nd rate screw ship-of-the-line (1855)
Ships
Name |
No | Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brunswick | Pembroke DYd | 8.1847 | 1.6.1855 | 27.6.1855 | sold 3.1867 |
Technical data
| Displacement normal, t | 3632 |
|---|---|
| Displacement full, t | |
| Length, m | 57.9 pp |
| Breadth, m | 17.0 |
| Draught, m | 7.11 hold depth |
| No of shafts | 1 |
| Machinery | sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE |
| Power, h. p. | 1438ihp |
| Max speed, kts | 7.7 |
| Fuel, t | coal |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
| Armament | 14 x 1 - 204/15 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML, 18 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 24 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr 50cwt SBML, 24 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML |
| Complement | 750 |
Project history
Conversion of 80-gun 3rd rate (incomplete on stocks), design of 1854. Ordered as modified Vanguard class sailing 80-gun ships, originally ordered in 1847. Wooden hull.
Modernizations
1863: reduced to 68 guns
1866: reduced to 60 guns
Naval service
No significant events.
