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PRINCE OF WALES 1st rate screw ship-of-the-line (1860)


Ships


Name

No

Yard No

Builder

Laid down

Launched

Comp

Fate

Prince of Wales

    Portsmouth DYd 10.6.1848 25.1.1860 1860 sailing ship 1867, TS 3.1869


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

6201

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

76.8 pp

Breadth, m

18.3

Draught, m

7.67 hold depth

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE, trunk

Power, h. p.

3352ihp

Max speed, kts

12.6

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt SBML, 62 x 1 - 204/13 8'' 65cwt shell SBML, 32 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 58cwt SBML, 26 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML

Complement

1100



Project history

Modified Queen class 1st rate 120-gun sailing ship (stretched Edye & Watts design), reordered as 121-gun screw ship 9.4.1856. Wooden hull.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Prince of Wales was never fitted for sea, her engines were removed in 1867.