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HMS Queen (1839)

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538: 453: 33: 66: 364:. She was the last purely sailing-built battleship to be ordered. Subsequent ones were ordered with both sails and steam engines. All British battleships were constructed with sailing rig 603: 49: 498:
had an auxiliary steam engine fitted, and at the same time was cut down from three decks to two gun decks, and re-armed as an 86-gun ship. She was fitted with a
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were originally ordered to the same design; of these a ship originally ordered at Portsmouth Dockyard on 12 September 1833 as
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This was the only ship completed to this Symonds draught, although three other
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had an auxiliary steam engine fitted in late 1850s. She was broken up in 1871.
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The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650–1850.
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was eventually completed as a 90-gun screw battleship under the name
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The Crimean War at Sea: The Naval Campaigns against Russia, 1854-56.
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Lyon & Winfield, The Sail & Steam Navy List 1815–1889.
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was eventually completed as a 90-gun screw battleship, while
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on 12 April 1839, and was eventually completed as a screw
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Middle gun deck: 28 × 32-pdrs, 2 × 68-pdr carronades
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Now, being able to cruise at 10.5 701:Ships of the line of the Royal Navy 494:Between August 1858 and April 1859 13: 585:"Timmy the tortoise dies aged 160" 577: 16:Ship of the line of the Royal Navy 14: 727: 270:23 ft 9 in (7.2 m) 221: in (66.0 m) (gun deck) 187: in (62.2 m) (gun deck) 64: 31: 42:, Flagship of Vice Admiral Sir 686:, by Robert Strickland Thomas. 595: 474:on 17 October 1854 during the 447: 1: 630: 608:. London: Southwark Council. 360:, launched on 15 May 1839 at 238: in (53.1 m) (keel) 204: in (50.7 m) (keel) 602:Rankin, Stuart (July 2004). 513: 329:Upper gun deck: 32 × 32-pdrs 308:Upper gun deck: 32 × 32-pdrs 7: 489: 10: 732: 641:Pen & Sword Maritime. 502:500 nhp engine and single 375: 18: 706:Ships built in Portsmouth 472:Bombardment of Sevastopol 311:Quarterdeck: 10 × 32-pdrs 207:as converted 216 ft 137: 57: 30: 545: 500:Maudslay, Sons and Field 480:Frederick Thomas Michell 138:General characteristics 50:Robert Strickland Thomas 684:HMS Queen leaving Malta 656:Conway Maritime Press. 541:Breaking up of the ship 278:Sails (and screw later) 173:originally 204 ft 637:Duckers, Peter (2011) 542: 464: 317:Poop deck: 4 × 18-pdrs 296:(originally) 110 guns: 262: in (18.3 m) 652:Lavery, Brian (2003) 540: 455: 323:Lower gun deck: 30 × 671:Chatham Publishing. 484:Timothy the tortoise 133:Screw ship from 1859 470:was engaged in the 411:took over the name 101:Portsmouth Dockyard 543: 524:Surrey Canal Wharf 465: 419:under the name of 422:Frederick William 341: 340: 325:8-inch shell guns 723: 624: 623: 618:. 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Index

HMS Queen

Edward Rich Owen
Robert Strickland Thomas
United Kingdom
first-rate
ship of the line
bm
carronades
8-inch shell guns
68 pdrs
first-rate
ship of the line
Royal Navy
Portsmouth
until the 1870s
Queen Victoria
broadened Caledonia class
William Symonds
sister ships
battleship
Frederick William
Algiers
Windsor Castle

Bosphorus
Bombardment of Sevastopol
Crimean War
Frederick Thomas Michell
Timothy the tortoise

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