HMS Chesapeake (1855)

History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Chesapeake
Launched: 1855-09-12
Fate: Broken up, 1867, Charlton
General characteristics
Class and type: Forte class
Displacement: 1,610 tons
Tons burthen: 1,111 tons
Length: 235 ft (72 m)
Propulsion: screw
Complement: 510
Armament: 51 guns

HMS Chesapeake was a Royal Navy screw-propelled 51-gun frigate launched in 1855, with a crew of 510 men.[1] She saw action during the Second Opium War and there is a memorial to her losses at Southsea, near Portsmouth.[2] She was the flagship of the British China Squadron in 1861.

Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fisher served in her in 1860.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Mid-Victorian ships: Chesapeake
  2. ↑ Chesapeake Memorial Archived 16 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Mackay, Ruddock F. (1973), Fisher of Kilverstone, London: Oxford Clarendon Press, pp. 13–28

References

  • Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.