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UNITED KINGDOM
MARLBOROUGH 1st rate screw ship-of-the-line (1858)
Ships
Name |
No | Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Marlborough |
Portsmouth DYd | 1.9.1850 | 1.8.1855 | 1858 | receiving ship 1864 |
Technical data
| Displacement normal, t | 6065 |
|---|---|
| Displacement full, t | |
| Length, m | 74.8 pp |
| Breadth, m | 18.3 |
| Draught, m | 6.63 |
| No of shafts | 1 |
| Machinery | sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE |
| Power, h. p. | 2684ihp |
| Max speed, kts | 11.9 |
| Fuel, t | coal |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
| Armament | 1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt SBML, 16 x 1 - 204/13 8'' 65cwt shell SBML, 56 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 38 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML, 20 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML |
| Complement | 1100 |
Project history
Modified Queen class 1st rate 120-gun sailing ship, suspended in December 1851 and reordered as 131-gun screw ship 30.10.1852. During conversion Marlborough received extra 1.5m section at the bow. Wooden hull.
Modernizations
None.
Naval service
No significant events.
