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London

HMS London

Survived

Royal Navy

TypeShip of the line
WarCrimean War
Main guns30 × 32-pounder guns

90-gun second rate. Damaged by the forts at Sevastopol.

HMS London depicted in Zanzibar, 1881. The East African Slave Trade, Recent Conflicts with Slave Dhows. Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 17 December 1881. Read the ILN Photo: Josiah Robert Wells, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

All muzzle-loading, smoothbore guns

  • Lower gun deck: 30 × 32 pdrs + 2 × 68 pdr carronades
  • Upper gun deck: 34 × 32 pdrs
  • Forecastle & Quarterdeck: 26 × 32 pdrs
BuilderHM Dockyard, Chatham
Laid downOctober 1827
Launched28 September 1840
Commissioned28 May 1851
Length205 ft 6 in (62.64 m) (gun deck)
Speed11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph)
Complement850

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

Career

Launched

28 September 1840

17 October 1854

Fate

Survived

Sold for scrap, 1884