HMS Collingwood (1841)

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Name: HMS Collingwood
Ordered: 23 June 1832
Builder: Pembroke Dockyard
Laid down: September 1835
Launched: 17 August 1841
Fate: Sold, 1867
General characteristics
Class and type: Vanguard-class ship of the line
Tons burthen: 2589 tons (2630.5 tonnes)
Length: 190 ft (58 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 56 ft 9 in (17.3 m)
Depth of hold: 22 ft 6 in (6.9 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament:

78 guns:

  • Gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades
  • Quarterdeck: 14 × 32 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 2 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Poop deck: 4 × 18 pdr carronades
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Collingwood.

HMS Collingwood was an 80-gun two-deck second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 August 1841 at Pembroke Dockyard.

She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1861, and sold out of the navy in 1867.

[edit] References

  • Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
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