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UNITED KINGDOM
CRESSY 2nd rate screw ship-of-the-line (1854)
Ships
Name |
No | Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cressy | Chatham DYd | 4.1846 | 21.7.1853 | 9.3.1854 | sold 1867 |
Technical data
| Displacement normal, t | 3707 |
|---|---|
| Displacement full, t | |
| Length, m | 60.5 pp |
| Breadth, m | 16.8 |
| Draught, m | 6.61 hold depth |
| No of shafts | 1 |
| Machinery | sails + boilers, 1 2-cyl HSE |
| Power, h. p. | 1076ihp |
| Max speed, kts | 7.2 |
| Fuel, t | coal |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
| Armament | 14 x 1 - 204/15 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML, 18 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 24 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr 50cwt SBML, 24 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML |
| Complement | 750 |
Project history
Conversion of 80-gun 2nd rate (incomplete on stocks) to 80-gun screw ship, design of 1852. Ordered in 1844 as Vanguard class sailing 80-gun ship. Wooden hull.
Modernizations
None.
Naval service
No significant events.
