HMS Furious (1850)
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Furious |
Ordered | 25 April 1847 |
Builder | Portsmouth Dockyard / Miller & Ravenhill |
Laid down | June 1848 |
Launched | 26 August 1850 |
Commissioned | 18 February 1853 |
Out of service | Became a coal hulk at Portsmouth, March 1867 |
Fate | Sold for breaking up 1884 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Furious-class frigate |
Tons burthen | 1,287 tons |
Length | 206 ft (63 m) |
Beam | 36 ft 6 in (11.13 m) |
Propulsion |
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Complement | 175 |
Armament | 16 guns:
10 x 32pdr guns (Middle deck) 2 x 10in guns on pivots (Upper deck) 4 x 32pdr guns (Upper deck) |
HMS Furious was a 16 gun steam powered
Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 26 August 1850. She was the lead ship of the two ship class of Furious-class frigate
. She was built at a cost of £64,794, of which her machinery cost £24,577.
On 29 October 1853, Furious struck a sunken rock in the
Odessa after coming under fire from shore-based artillery.[2]
Furious was sent with 14 gunboats as reinforcements to the China squadron in 1857.[3]
She became a coal hulk at Portsmouth in March 1867 and was sold for breaking up in 1884 to Castle, of Charlton.
References
- ^ "The Combined Fleets of England and France". The Morning Chronicle. No. 27117. London. 21 November 1853.
- ^ "Italy". The Morning Chronicle. No. 27257. London. 4 May 1854.
- ISBN 978-1134244744. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
- ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- Lyon, David and Winfield, Rif, The Sail and Steam Navy List, All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889, pub Chatham, 2004, ISBN 1-86176-032-9