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FIGHTING SHIPS OF THE WORLD
UNITED KINGDOM
ORION 2nd rate screw ships-of-the-line (1855-1859)
Ships
Name |
No | Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orion | Chatham DYd | 1.2.1850 | 6.11.1854 | 29.3.1855 | sold 1867 | ||
| Hood (ex-Edgar) | Chatham DYd | 13.8.1849 | 4.5.1859 | 15.6.1859 | hulk 1872 |
Technical data
| Displacement normal, t | 3202bm |
|---|---|
| Displacement full, t | |
| Length, m | 72.5 pp |
| Breadth, m | 17.0 |
| Draught, m | 7.32 hold depth |
| No of shafts | 1 |
| Machinery | sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE, trunk |
| Power, h. p. | Orion: 2329ihp Hood: 2385ihp |
| Max speed, kts | Orion: 11.5 Hood: 11.8 |
| Fuel, t | coal |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
| Armament | 1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 34 x 1 - 204/15 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML, 34 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 22 x 1 - 161/16 32pdr 45cwt SBML |
| Complement | 860 |
Project history
Conversion of 80-gun 2nd rates (incomplete on stocks) to 91-gun screw ships, Surveyor's Department design of 1852. Ordered in 1848 as sailing 80-gun ships. Wooden hull.
Modernizations
None.
Naval service
No significant events.
