HMS Collingwood (1841)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Collingwood.
Career (UK)
Name: HMS Collingwood
Ordered: 23 June 1832
Builder: Pembroke Dockyard
Laid down: September 1835
Launched: 17 August 1841
Fate: Sold, 1867
General characteristics [1]
Class and type:Vanguard-class ship of the line
Tons burthen:2589 bm
Length:190 ft (58 m) (gundeck)
Beam:56 ft 9 in (17.30 m)
Depth of hold:22 ft 6 in (6.86 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

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.[1]

She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1861, and sold out of the navy in 1867.[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p191.

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.
  • Kay, H Alison (1986) HMS Collingwood 1844-1848 (Pacific Station), From the Journals of Philip Horatio Townsend Somerville,R.N. The Pentland Press ISBN 0-946270-31-7