HMS Chesapeake (1855)
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| 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 |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Chesapeake.
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 on her as an acting lieutenant in 1860.[3]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Mid-Victorian ships: Chesapeake
- ^ Chesapeake Memorial
- ^ Mackay, Ruddock F. (1973), Fisher of Kilverstone, London: Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 13-28
[edit] References
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
