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FIGHTING SHIPS OF THE WORLD
UNITED KINGDOM
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CAESAR 2nd rate sailing ship-of-the-line


Ships


Name

No

Yard No

Builder

Laid down

Launched

Comp

Fate

Caesar     Pembroke DYd 8.1848 --- --- reordered as screw battleship 10.1852


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

2761bm

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

63.2 gundeck

Breadth, m

18.3

Draught, m

7.44 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p. 
Max speed, kts 
Fuel, t 
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

32 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 204/12 68pdr 52cwt shell SBML, 32 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 24 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML

Complement

820



Project history

90-gun 2nd rate two-decker. Committee of Reference design of 1847, modifies from Rodney class. Sister-ship St. Jean d'Acre was ordered as sailing ship but was laid down as screw one.