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UNITED KINGDOM
HOOD 2nd rate sailing ships-of-the-line
Ships
Name |
No | Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hood (ex-Edgar) | Chatham DYd | 13.8.1849 | --- | --- | reordered as screw battleship 4.1856 | ||
| Orion | Chatham DYd | 1.2.1850 | --- | --- | reordered as screw battleship 10.1852 | ||
| Edgar | Pembroke DYd | 1850? | --- | --- | reordered as screw battleship 4.1851 |
Technical data
| Displacement normal, t | 2600bm |
|---|---|
| Displacement full, t | |
| Length, m | 60.4 gundeck |
| Breadth, m | 17.0 |
| Draught, m | 7.11 hold depth |
| No of shafts |
|
| Machinery | sails |
| Power, h. p. | |
| Max speed, kts | |
| Fuel, t | |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
| Armament | 12 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML, 20 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 24 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr 50cwt SBML, 24 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 41cwt SBML |
| Complement | 720 |
Project history
80-gun 2nd rate two-deckers. Edye and Watts design, approved in 1848. The last sailing battleships to be laid down for the RN.
