HMS Marlborough (1855)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Marlborough.
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.
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Painting of HMS Marlborough off Gibraltar, by Henry J. Morgan | |
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Name | HMS Marlborough |
Builder | Portsmouth Dockyard |
Launched | 31 July 1855 |
Renamed | Vernon II in March 1904 |
Reclassified | Training ship in 1878 |
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General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | 131-gun first-rate wooden steam battleship |
Displacement | 6,065 tons |
Tons burthen | 4,000 18/94 bm |
Length | 245 ft 6 in (74.83 m) |
Beam | 61 ft 2.5 in (18.656 m) |
Draught | 21 ft 9 in (6.63 m) |
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Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Speed | 11.886 kt (steam only)[2] |
Complement | 1,100 |
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