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PRESIDENT 4th rate sailing frigate (1834)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
President     Portsmouth DYd 6.1824 20.4.1829 26.5.1834 TS 10.1861


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

1537bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

53.3 gundeck

Breadth, m

13.7

Draught, m

4.06 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p. 
Max speed, kts 
Fuel, t 
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

36 x 1 - 148/18 24pdr SBML, 16 x 1 - 147/11 24pdr SBML carronades

Complement

450



Project history

60-gun 4th rate 24pdr frigate but completed with 52 guns only. 1818 design to lines of US prize President, taken in 1813.

Modernizations

1840s: was armed with 32 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr SBML, 20 x 1 - 159/11 32pdr SBML carronades

Naval service

No significant events.