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FIGHTING SHIPS OF THE WORLD
UNITED KINGDOM
CUMBERLAND 3rd rate sailing ships-of-the-line (1842-1848)
Ships
Name |
No | Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cumberland | Chatham DYd | 4.1836 | 21.10.1842 | 7.12.1842 | sheer hulk 4.1863 | ||
| Boscawen | Woolwich DYd | 1.1826 | 3.4.1844 | 26.9.1848 | drill ship 2.1862 |
Technical data
| Displacement normal, t | 2212bm |
|---|---|
| Displacement full, t | |
| Length, m | 54.9 gundeck |
| Breadth, m | 16.5 |
| Draught, m | 6.81 hold depth |
| No of shafts |
|
| Machinery | sails |
| Power, h. p. | |
| Max speed, kts | |
| Fuel, t | |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
| Armament | 6 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt SBML, 22 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 26 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr 50cwt SBML, 12 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt, 4 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr 10cwt SBML |
| Complement | 620 |
Project history
70-gun 3nd rate two-deckers. William Symonds design of 1833. Boscawen was originally ordered as a member of 74-gun Armada class in 1812 but was reordered to new 80-gun design in 1817 and began building as such in 1826 but cancelled in 1831 and reordered again as 50-gun frigate Indefatigable in 1832 before finally reordered as a 70-gun ship.
Modernizations
1850s, both: - 4 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr 10cwt; + 4 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML
Naval service
No significant events.
