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FIGHTING SHIPS OF THE WORLD
UNITED KINGDOM
VICTORIA screw ships-of-the-line (1860)
Ships
Name |
No | Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Howe | 150 | Pembroke DYd | 10.3.1856 | 7.3.1860 | 16.8.1860 | TS 12.1885 | |
| Victoria | Portsmouth DYd | 1.4.1856 | 12.11.1859 | 20.4.1860 | sold 5.1893 |
Technical data
| Displacement normal, t | Victoria: 6959 Howe: 6557 |
|---|---|
| Displacement full, t | |
| Length, m | 79.2 pp |
| Breadth, m | Victoria: 18.3 Howe: 18.6 |
| Draught, m | 6.32 - 6.45 |
| No of shafts | 1 |
| Machinery | Victoria: sails + 8 boilers, 1 HSE Howe: sails + 8 boilers, 1 HSE trunk |
| Power, h. p. | Victoria: 4403ihp Howe: 4564ihp |
| Max speed, kts | Victoria: 11.8 Howe: 13.6 |
| Fuel, t | coal |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
| Armament | 1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 62 x 1 - 204/13 8'' 65cwt SBML, 32 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 58cwt SBML, 26 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 42cwt SBML |
| Complement | 1000 |
Project history
121-gun 1st rate three-deckers. Design by Isaac Watts. Only two-funnelled wooden-hulled screw battleships in the RN, having one funnel either side of mainmast. Also the only screw three-deckers designed and built as such. Wooden hull.
Modernizations
None.
Naval service
Howe never saw sea service, placed in reserve at Plymouth, later she was converted to boy`s TS. Victoria was paid off in 1867.
Thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.
