HMS Marlborough (1855)

HMS Marlborough was a first-rate three-decker 131-gun screw ship built for the Royal Navy in 1855. She was begun as a sailing ship of the line (with her sister ships HMS Duke of Wellington, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Royal Sovereign), but was completed to a modified design and converted to steam on the stocks, and launched as a wooden steam battleship.

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

Painting of HMS Marlborough off Gibraltar, by Henry J. Morgan
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Marlborough
BuilderPortsmouth Dockyard
Launched31 July 1855
RenamedVernon II in March 1904
ReclassifiedTraining ship in 1878
Fate
  • Sold October 1924
  • Sank, 28 November 1924
General characteristics
Class and type131-gun first-rate wooden steam battleship
Displacement6,065 tons
Tons burthen4,000 18/94 bm
Length245 ft 6 in (74.83 m)
Beam61 ft 2.5 in (18.656 m)
Draught21 ft 9 in (6.63 m)
Propulsion
  • Sails and screw
  • single hoisting screw, 800 nhp Maudslay 2-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine, 2684 ihp
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Speed11.886 kt (steam only)
Complement1,100
Armament
  • Gundeck: 10 × 8in (65cwt), 26 × 32pdrs (56cwt)
  • Middle deck: 6 × 8in (65cwt), 30 × 32pdrs (56cwt)
  • Upper deck: 38 × 32pdrs (42cwt)
  • Quarterdeck & Forecastle: 20 × 32pdrs (25cwt), 1 × 68pdr (95cwt)
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