HMS Collingwood (1841)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Collingwood.

History
United Kingdom
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

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. Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 191.
2. Wikisource:Goodenough, James Graham (DNB00)

References

• Lavery, Brian (1983) 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