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Rodney

HMS Rodney

Survived

Royal Navy

TypeShip of the line
WarCrimean War
Main gunsLower gun deck: 32 × 32 pdr guns, 2 × 8 in (203 mm) shell guns

92-gun second rate. Ran aground under the forts at Sevastopol and was hauled off.

HMS "Rodney" going out of Barcelona 1837, 1837 by Nicolas S. Cammillieri Medium: watercolour on cardboard Size: 47 x 59.5 cm. (18.5 x 23.4 in.) Photo: Nicolas Cammillieri, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

  • All muzzle-loading, smoothbore guns
  • Lower gun deck: 32 × 32 pdr guns, 2 × 8 in (203 mm) shell guns
  • Upper gun deck: 32 × 32 pdr guns, 2 × 8 in shell guns
  • Forecastle & Quarterdeck: 24 × 32 pdr guns
BuilderPembroke Dockyard
Laid downJuly 1827
Launched18 June 1833
Commissioned29 August 1835
Displacement3,126 long tons (3,176 t)
Length205 ft 8 in (62.69 m) (gundeck)
Speed11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph)
Complement820 men

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

Career

Launched

18 June 1833

17 October 1854

Ran aground

Fate

Survived

Broken up, February 1882