HMS Queen (1839)

	HMS Queen, Flagship of Vice Admiral Sir Edward Rich Owen, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean fleet, leaving Malta (Robert Strickland Thomas, 1842)
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Queen
Ordered	29 October 1827
Builder	Portsmouth Dockyard
Laid down	November 1833
Launched	15 May 1839
Fate	Broken up, 1871
Notes	Screw ship from 1859
General characteristics
Class and type	110-gun first-rate ship of the line
Tons burthen	3104 bm
Length	originally 204 ft 2+1⁄2 in (62.2 m) (gundeck); 166 ft 5+1⁄4 in (50.7 m) (keel); as converted 216 ft 7+1⁄2 in (66.0 m) (gundeck); 174 ft 1+3⁄4 in (53.1 m) (keel);
Beam	60 ft 0+1⁄2 in (18.3 m)
Depth of hold	23 ft 9 in (7.2 m)
Propulsion	Sails (and screw later)
Complement	950
Armament	(originally) 110 guns:; Lower Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades; Middle gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades; Upper gundeck: 32 × 32 pdrs; Quarterdeck: 10 × 32 pdrs; Forecastle: 2 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades; Poop deck: 4 × 18 pdrs; (as converted to screw propulsion) 86 guns:; Lower gundeck: 30 x 8-inch shell guns; Upper gundeck: 32 x 32 pdrs; Quarterdeck and Forecastle: 22 x 32 pdrs, 2 x 68 pdrs;

HMS Queen was a 110-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 May 1839 at Portsmouth. She was the last purely sailing-built battleship to be ordered. Subsequent ones were ordered with both sails and steam engines. All British battleships were constructed with sailing rig until the 1870s. HMS Queen had an auxiliary steam engine fitted in late 1850s. She was broken up in 1871.

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