HMS Sans Pareil

Survived

Type	Ship of the line
War	Crimean War
Main guns	24 × 8″ guns

Screw ship of the line. Went in with Agamemnon close under the forts at Sevastopol and was badly hit.

The 'Sans Pareil' in Besika Bay, 3 October 1853. British two-decker, is inscribed, 'Sans Pareil - Besika Bay / Oct 3d 53 Capt Dacres', with 'airy Blue' and 'Yellow' as colour notes in the sky to the left of the ship, which is shown almost in starboard broadside view, drying sails. This is cropped fr Photo: Captain George Pechell Mends, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

70 muzzle-loading, smoothbore guns

Lower deck: 30 × 32 pdr guns
Upper deck: 24 × 32 pdr guns + 6 × 8 in (203 mm) shell guns
Quarter deck & Forecastle: 10 × 32 pdr guns

Builder	Devonport Dockyard
Laid down	1 September 1845
Launched	18 March 1851
Commissioned	12 November 1852
Displacement	3,800 long tons (3,900 t)
Length	200 ft (61 m) (o/a)
Speed	7.1 knots (13.1 km/h; 8.2 mph) (trials)
Complement	626

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

Career

Launched

18 March 1851

Bombardment of Sevastopol

Damaged

17 October 1854

Fate

Survived

Sold for scrap, March 1867