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EXMOUTH 2nd rate screw ship-of-the-line (1855)


Ships


Name

No

Yard No

Builder

Laid down

Launched

Comp

Fate

Exmouth     Plymouth DYd // Devonport DYd 13.9.1841 12.7.1854 15.3.1855 TS 1877


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

4382

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

62.2 pp 74.1 oa

Breadth, m

18.3

Draught, m

6.25

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE

Power, h. p.

1252ihp

Max speed, kts

9.1

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 32 x 1 - 204/15 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML, 32 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 26 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML

Complement

830



Project history

Conversion of 90-gun 2nd rate (incomplete on stocks) to 91-gun screw ship, design of 1853. Ordered in 1840 as Albion class ship. Wooden hull.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.