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UNITED KINGDOM
MAJESTIC 2nd rate screw ships-of-the-line (1854-1860)
Ships
Name |
No | Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Majestic | Chatham DYd | 2.1841 | 1.12.1853 | 22.4.1854 | Coast Guard 2.1860 | ||
| Irresistible | Chatham DYd | 1.1.1849 | 27.10.1859 | 1.1860 | Coast Guard 4.1864 |
Technical data
| Displacement normal, t | 3482 |
|---|---|
| Displacement full, t | |
| Length, m | 57.9 pp |
| Breadth, m | 17.3 |
| Draught, m | 7.11 hold depth |
| No of shafts | 1 |
| Machinery | Majestic: sails + 1 2-cyl HSE Irresistible: sails + 1 2-cyl HSE (trunked) |
| Power, h. p. | Majestic: 1192ihp Irresistible: 1461ihp |
| Max speed, kts | Majestic: 8.8 Irresistible: 8.6 |
| 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 1852. Ordered as Vanguard class sailing 80-gun ships. Wooden hull.
Modernizations
None.
Naval service
No significant events.
