NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Formidable			Chatham DYd	10.1819	19.5.1825	5.8.1825	TS 7.1869
Ganges			East India Co., Bombay	5.1819	10.11.1821	7.1.1823	TS 8.1865
Powerful			Chatham DYd	8.1820	21.6.1826	4.10.1826	target ship 1860
Vengeance			Pembroke DYd	7.1819	27.7.1824	1824	receiving ship 1861
Monarch			Deptford DYd // Chatham DYd	8.1825	8.12.1832	10.6.1833	target ship 1862
Thunderer			Woolwich DYd	4.1823	22.9.1831	8.3.1833	target ship 6.1863
Asia			East India Co., Bombay	1.1822	19.1.1824	1.1827	HQ vessel 2.1864
Bombay			East India Co., Bombay	5.1826	17.2.1828	1828	screw battleship 6.1861, fire 14.12.1864
Clarence (ex-Goliath)			Pembroke DYd	8.1824	25.7.1827	1827	lent to Reformatory Society 1.1864

Technical data

Data variant	sailing	screw
Displacement normal, t	Formidable, Ganges: 2255bm others: 2279bm	2783bm
Displacement full, t
Length, m	Formidable: 59.1 gundeck Ganges, Asia, Bombay: 59.8 gundeck others: 59.5 gundeck	71.2 gundeck
Breadth, m	15.7	16.0
Draught, m	6.86 depth hold	7.04 hold depth
No of shafts		1
Machinery	sails	sails + 1 2-cyl HSE
Power, h. p.		1688ihp
Max speed, kts		10.2
Fuel, t		coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	32 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr SBML, 16 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML carronades, 38 x 1 - 148/18 24pdr SBML Vengeance: 4 x 1 - 204/12 68pdr SBML, 30 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr 49cwt SBML, 20 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML carronades, 28 x 1 - 148/18 24pdr SBML	1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt, 14 x 1 - 204/13 8'' 65cwt SBML, 24 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 30 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr 50cwt SBML, 12 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt
Complement	700	750

Project history

84-guns 2nd rate two-deckers. Design copied from Canopus (French prize Le Franklin, taken in 1798). This class went through a series of design modifications after the first ship was built.

Modernizations

1861, Bombay: was converted to screw 81-guns 2nd rate two-decker with data as given in the table

Naval service

Bombay burnt 14.12.1864 by accident off Montevideo.