History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Collingwood
Ordered23 June 1832
BuilderPembroke Dockyard
Laid downSeptember 1835
Launched17 August 1841
FateSold, 1867
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeVanguard-class ship of the line
Tons burthen2589 bm
Length190 ft (58 m) (gundeck)
Beam56 ft 9 in (17.30 m)
Depth of hold22 ft 6 in (6.86 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planFull-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

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]

Collingwood in the bay of Valparaíso, 25 October 1847, at the moment of shifting the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir George Seymour from white to the red with HMS Carysfort, in attendance and saluting

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. ^ a b c 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


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