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VERNON 4th rate sailing frigate (1832)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Vernon     Woolwich DYd 10.1831 1.5.1832 29.7.1832 hulk 3.1863


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

2388

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

53.6 gundeck

Breadth, m

16.1

Draught, m

5.21 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

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

28 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 22 x 1 - 161/16 32pdr 45cwt SBML

Complement

450



Project history

50-gun 4th rate 32pdr frigate. William Symonds design of 1831, based on lines of 80-gun Gibraltar. Sister-ship Indefatigable was ordered in 1832 but later reordered as a 70-gun ship.

Modernizations

1840s: - 6 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt; + 6 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML

Naval service

No significant events.