NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Albion			Plymouth DYd	13.8.1839	6.9.1842	23.1.1844	screw ship 5.1861, BU 8.1884
Aboukir			Plymouth DYd	8.1840	4.4.1848	19.4.1848	screw ship 1.1858, sold 1878
Exmouth			Plymouth DYd	13.9.1841	---	---	converted to screw battleship on the stocks
Princess Royal (ex-Prince Albert)			Portsmouth DYd	2.1841	---	---	re-ordered to new design 1847
Hannibal			Woolwich DYd	1841?	---	---	re-ordered to new design 1847
Algiers			Plymouth DYd	10.7.1843	---	---	re-ordered to new design 1847

Technical data

Data variant	sailing	screw
Displacement normal, t	3100bm	4382
Displacement full, t
Length, m	62.2 gundeck	62.2 pp 74.1 oa
Breadth, m	18.3	18.3
Draught, m	7.21 hold depth	7.21 hold depth
No of shafts		1
Machinery	sails	Aboukir: sails + 1 2-cyl HSE (trunked) Albion: sails + 1 2-cyl HSE
Power, h. p.		Aboukir: 1533ihp Albion: 1835ihp
Max speed, kts		Aboukir: 9.6 Albion: 11.0
Fuel, t		coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	4 x 1 - 206/16 68pdr 112cwt SBML, 6 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 204/12 68pdr 52cwt shell SBML, 54 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 24 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML	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	820	830

Project history

90-gun 2nd rate two-deckers. Sir William Symonds design of 1839. Sister-ship St. Jean d'Acre was ordered in 1844 but suspended that year and later redesigned.

Modernizations

1858, Aboukir; 1861, Albion: were converted to 91-gun screw ships with data as given in the table

Naval service

No significant events.