HMS Collingwood (1841)

HMS Collingwood was an 80-gun two-deck second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 August 1841 at Pembroke Dockyard.[1]

History
UK
Name:	HMS Collingwood
Ordered:	23 June 1832
Builder:	Pembroke Dockyard
Laid down:	September 1835
Launched:	17 August 1841
Fate:	Sold, 1867
General characteristics [1]
Class and type:	Vanguard-class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	2589 bm
Length:	190 ft (58 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	56 ft 9 in (17.30 m)
Depth of hold:	22 ft 6 in (6.86 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Armament:	78 guns: Gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades Upper gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades Quarterdeck: 14 × 32 pdrs Forecastle: 2 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades Poop deck: 4 × 18 pdr carronades

It was fitted with screw propulsion in 1861, and sold out of the navy in 1867.[1]

One of its first crew was Midshipman (later Commodore) James Graham Goodenough, whilst the ship was in the Pacific fleet of Admiral Sir George Francis Seymour.[2]

Notes

1. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p191.
2. Wikisource:Goodenough, James Graham (DNB00)

References

• Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
• Kay, H Alison (1986) HMS Collingwood 1844-1848 (Pacific Station), From the Journals of Philip Horatio Townsend Somerville,R.N. The Pentland Press ISBN 0-946270-31-7