HMS Chesapeake

Survived

Type	Frigate
War	Second Opium War
Main guns	51 guns

Screw frigate. Rear Admiral James Hope's flagship in China, lying off the bar at the Taku Forts in 1859 and 1860.

Black-list men, mustering for water grog. HMS Chesapeake, 1858 A punishment in the British Navy during the days of sail, inflicted on seamen found guilty of neglect or drunkenness. It consisted of their daily tot of grog being diluted with six parts of water instead of the normal three. It was a pun Photo: Lt. Col. William Godfrey Rayson Masters R.M., Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

51 guns

Builder	Chatham Dockyard
Launched	27 September 1855
Displacement	1,610 tons
Length	235 ft (72 m)
Complement	510

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

27 September 1855

Second Battle of the Taku Forts

Survived

25 June 1859

Lay off the bar

Third Battle of the Taku Forts

Survived

21 August 1860

Hope's flagship

Fate

Survived

Broken up in Charlton, 1867