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UNITED KINGDOM
PRINCESS ROYAL 2nd rate screw ships-of-the-line (1854)
Ships
Name |
No | Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hannibal |
Deptford DYd | 12/1848 | 31.1.1854 | 22.6.1854 | depot ship 2.1863 | ||
| Princess Royal (ex-Prince Albert) | Portsmouth DYd | 2/1841 | 23.6.1853 | 11.3.1854 | sold 12.1872 |
Technical data
| Displacement normal, t | 4540 |
|---|---|
| Displacement full, t | |
| Length, m | 66.1 pp |
| Breadth, m | 17.7 |
| Draught, m | 8.08 |
| No of shafts | 1 |
| Machinery | Hannibal: sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE geared Princess Royal: sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE |
| Power, h. p. | Hannibal: 1071ihp Princess Royal: 1492ihp |
| Max speed, kts | Hannibal: 8.6 Princess Royal: 11.0 |
| Fuel, t | coal |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
| Armament | 1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt SBML, 32 x 1 - 204/13 8'' 65cwt shell SBML, 34 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 24 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML |
| Complement | 850 |
Project history
Conversion of 90-gun 2nd rates (incomplete on stocks) to 91-gun screw ships, design of 1852. Ordered in 1840 as Albion class ships. Both were lengthened and converted to screw on the stocks. Wooden hull.
Modernizations
None.
Naval service
No significant events.
