HMS Penelope

Damaged

Type	Steamer
War	Crimean War
Main guns	Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdr cannon

A sailing frigate cut in half and lengthened to make a paddle steamer. Ran aground under the guns of Bomarsund and was only got off by throwing her guns overboard.

H.M. Steam frigate Penelope... Hand-coloured. H.M. Steam frigate Penelope... Photo: Ackermann (publishers); Day and Haghe (engravers); Dutton, Thomas Goldsworth (artist and engraver); Edmund Fry (publisher), Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

46 guns

Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdr cannon
Quarterdeck: 14 × 32 pdr carronades
Forecastle: 2 × 9 pdr cannon and 2 × 32 pdr carronades

Builder	Admiralty, Chatham
Launched	13 October 1829
Displacement	1,469 tons
Length	151 ft 10 in (46.3 m) (pp)
Speed	10.5–11 knots (19.4–20.4 km/h; 12.1–12.7 mph)
Complement	300

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

Career

Launched

13 October 1829

Battle of Bomarsund

Damaged

8–16 August 1854

Ran aground under the forts