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FIGHTING SHIPS OF THE WORLD
UNITED KINGDOM
DEFIANCE screw ship-of-the-line (1861)
Ships
Name |
No | Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Defiance |
154 | Pembroke DYd |
20.9.1858 | 27.3.1861 |
27.6.1861 |
torpedo school ship 11.1884 |
Technical data
| Displacement normal, t | 3958 |
|---|---|
| Displacement full, t | |
| Length, m | 77.6 pp |
| Breadth, m | 16.9 |
| Draught, m | 7.47 hold depth |
| No of shafts | 1 |
| Machinery | sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE |
| Power, h. p. | 3550ihp |
| Max speed, kts | 11.8 |
| Fuel, t | coal |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
| Armament | 1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 34 x 1 - 204/13 8'' 65cwt shell SBML, 36 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 20 x 1 - 161/16 32pdr 45cwt SBML |
| Complement | 860 |
Project history
New 91-gun ship. Last wooden battleship launched in Britain. Originally she was to have been of Revenge class but design was modified: the hull was lengthened and the bow was modified. Wooden hull.
Modernizations
None.
Naval service
No significant events.
Thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.
