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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Princess Royal (ex-Prince Albert)			Portsmouth DYd	2.1841	---	---	reordered as screw battleship 9.1852

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	2897bm
Displacement full, t
Length, m	62.2 gundeck
Breadth, m	17.7
Draught, m	7.32 hold depth
No of shafts
Machinery	sails
Power, h. p.
Max speed, kts
Fuel, t
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	4 x 1 - 206/16 68pdr 112cwt shell SBML, 6 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 204/12 68pdr 52cwt shell SBML, 54 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 24 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML
Complement	820

Project history

90-gun 2nd rate two-decker. John Edye design of 1847 with breadth reduced from Albion design.