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UNITED KINGDOM
ROYAL ALBERT 1st rate sailing ship-of-the-line
Ships
Name |
No | Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Albert | Woolwich DYd | 8.1844 | --- | --- | reordered as screw battleship 1.1852 |
Technical data
| Displacement normal, t | 3463bm |
|---|---|
| Displacement full, t | |
| Length, m | 67.1 gundeck |
| Breadth, m | 18.5 |
| Draught, m | 7.62 hold depth |
| No of shafts |
|
| Machinery | sails |
| Power, h. p. | |
| Max speed, kts | |
| Fuel, t | |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
| Armament | 6 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 60cwt shell SBML, 60 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 34 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr 49cwt SBML, 6 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML, 14 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML |
| Complement | 1000 |
Project history
120-gun 1st rate three-decker. Oliver Lang design of 1831, effectively an expanded version of the last pre-Symondite three-decker, the Trafalgar. The largest pure sailing battleship ever designed for the Royal Navy.
