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UNITED KINGDOM
ALGIERS 2nd rate screw ship-of-the-line (1854)
Ships
Name |
No | Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Algiers |
Devonport DYd | 10.7.1843 | 26.1.1854 | 30.6.1854 | sold 2.1870 |
Technical data
| Displacement normal, t | 4730 |
|---|---|
| Displacement full, t | |
| Length, m | 66.6 pp 68.7 oa |
| Breadth, m | 18.3 |
| Draught, m | 7.80 |
| No of shafts | 1 |
| Machinery | sails + boilers, 1 4-cyl HSE geared |
| Power, h. p. | 1117ihp |
| Max speed, kts | 9 |
| Fuel, t | coal |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
| Armament | 1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt SBML, 32 x 1 - 204/13 8'' 65cwt shell SBML, 32 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 26 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML |
| Complement | 850 |
Project history
Conversion of 90-gun 2nd rate (incomplete on stocks) to 91-gun screw ship, design of 1852. Really was ordered in 1847 as 90-gun 2nd rate, taking over frames of a ship laid down in 1843 and ordered to complete as screw ship in 1852.
Modernizations
1859: re-engined with 1 2-cyl HSE (2518ihp, 12.2kts)
Naval service
No significant events.
