NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Rodney		57	Pembroke DYd	7.1827	18.6.1833	7.12.1835	screw ship 1.1860, BU 2.1882
Nile			Plymouth DYd	10.1827	28.6.1839	12.8.1839	screw ship 4.1854, TS 7.1876
London			Chatham DYd	10.1827	28.9.1840	25.2.1841	screw ship 5.1858, harbour service 4.1874

Technical data

Data variant	sailing	screw
Displacement normal, t	2598bm	4375
Displacement full, t
Length, m	62.6 gundeck	Nile: 62.6 pp Rodney: 65.3 pp London: 65.0 pp
Breadth, m	16.6	Nile: 16.6 Rodney, London: 16.5
Draught, m	7.01 hold depth	Nile: 7.06 hold depth London: 6.88 hold depth Rodney: 7.01 hold depth
No of shafts		1
Machinery	sails	sails + 1 2-cyl HSE
Power, h. p.		Rodney: 2246ihp Nile: 928ihp London: 1804ihp
Max speed, kts		Rodney, London: 11.5 Nile: 6.9
Fuel, t		coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	4 x 1 - 204/10 68pdr 50cwt shell SBML, 32 x 1 - 163/19 32pdr 63cwt, 32 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 55cwt SBML, 24 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML	1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt SBML, 24 x 1 - 204/15 68pdr 65cwt Shell SBML, 42 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 24 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML
Complement	820	850

Project history

92-gun 2nd rate two-deckers (originally planned as 100 guns). Sir Robert Seppings design of 1826.

Modernizations

1840s, all: were armed with 10 x 1 - 204/10 68pdr 50cwt shell SBML, 56 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 26 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML

1854, Nile; 1858, London; 1860, Rodney: were converted to screw ships with data as given in the table

Naval service

No significant events.