NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Nelson			Woolwich DYd	12.1809	4.7.1814	17.8.1814	screw 2.1860, screw TS 2.1867, screw frigate 1878, sold 4.1898
Howe			Chatham DYd	6.1808	28.3.1815	1815	BU 2.1854
Saint Vincent			Plymouth DYd	5.1810	11.3.1815	1815	troopship 1854

Technical data

Data variant	sailing	screw
Displacement normal, t	2601bm St. Vincent: 4672	2736bm 3158
Displacement full, t
Length, m	62.5 gundeck	65.9 gundeck
Breadth, m	16.3	16.6
Draught, m	7.32	6.65
No of shafts		1
Machinery	sails	sails + 1 2-cyl HSE
Power, h. p.		2102
Max speed, kts		11.5
Fuel, t		coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	32 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 64cwt SBML, 12 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr 17cwt SBML carronades, 34 x 1 - 148/18 24pdr SBML, 34 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr SBML, 6 x 1 - 139/8 18pdr carronades, 8 x 1 - 118/14 12pdr SBML	1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt, 32 x 1 - 203/13 65cwt SBML, 34 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 22 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt
Complement	875	850

Project history

120-guns three-deckers. Designed by the Surveyors' Office, modified from the draught for the Caledonia but proved poor sailers, being 'very crank'.

Modernizations

1840, all: completely rearmed with: 4 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 60cwt SBML, 66 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 36 x 1 - 161/14 32pdr 40cwt SBML, 14 x 1 - 159/12 32pdr 25cwt SBML carronades

(3/1859-1.9.1860), Nelson: was converted to screw 89-guns 2nd rate three-decker with data as given in the table

2/1867, Nelson: as TS was armed with 2 x 1 - 178/14 7''/110pdr 95cwt MLR, 20 x 1 - 160/16 64pdr 58cwt MLR, 20 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 43cwt SBML

1878, Nelson: as frigate was armed with 2 x 1 - 178/14 7''/110pdr 95cwt MLR, 19 x 1 - 160/16 64pdr 58cwt MLR, 10 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 43cwt SBML

1884, Nelson: - 1 x 1 - 160/16 64pdr 58cwt MLR; + 2 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 43cwt SBML

Naval service

No significant events.