Collingwood HMS

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Vanguard-class ship of the line

Description

History
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]
One of its first crew was Midshipman (later Commodore) James Graham Goodenough, whilst the ship was in the Pacific fleet of Admiral Sir George Francis Seymour.[

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