HMS Waterloo (1833)
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HMS Waterloo was a 120-gun, three-deck, first rate, broadened Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". built for the Royal Navy during the 1830s. The ship remained in ordinary until she was commissioned in 1851. She was razeed and converted into a steam-powered, 89-gun, second rate, two decker in 1859–1860. Waterloo was renamed Conqueror in 1862 and participated in the Shimonoseki campaign two years later. The ship was renamed Waterloo in 1876 and became a training ship. She was destroyed in a fire in 1918.
Description
As an 89-gun ship, Waterloo measured Script error: No such module "convert". on the gundeck and Script error: No such module "convert". on the keel. She had a beam of Script error: No such module "convert".,, a depth of hold of Script error: No such module "convert".[1] and a deep draught of Script error: No such module "convert".[2] The ship displaced Script error: No such module "convert". and had a tonnage of 2,845 tons burthen. She was fitted with a horizontal two-cylinder single-expansion steam engine built by Ravenhill, Salkeld & Co that was rated at 500 nominal horsepower and drove a single propeller shaft. Her boilers provided enough steam to give the engine Script error: No such module "convert". that was good for a speed of Script error: No such module "convert". during her sea trials. Her crew numbered 830 officers and ratings.[3]
The ship's muzzle-loading, smoothbore armament consisted of thirty-two [[ML 8-inch shell gun|Template:Cvt shell guns]] on her lower gundeck and thirty-four 32-pounder (56 cwt) guns[Note 1] on her upper gundeck. Between her forecastle and quarterdeck, she carried twenty-two 32-pounder (42 cwt) guns and a single 68-pounder gun.[4]
Construction and career
Waterloo was ordered on 16 February 1824, laid down at Chatham Dockyard in March 1827, launched on 18 June 1833 and moved to Sheerness Dockyard on 19 July to be placed in ordinary. The ship's first commission was not until 5 August 1851 under Captain Montagu Stopford as she was intended to serve as the flagship of Vice-Admiral James Dundas (Royal Navy officer), commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, although Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was sent instead.[1]
Waterloo was ordered to be cut down and converted into a steamship on 5 February 1859. The work included lengthening the ship by about Script error: No such module "convert". and began on 1 April. She was launched on 12 November and completed in April 1860. Following the loss of the modern 101-gun steam 2-decker Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". in 1861, Waterloo was renamed Conqueror on 27 February 1862. The ship was not commissioned until 24 November 1863 under Captain William Luard. She was sent to the China station, and bombarded Shimonoseki in September 1864. Conqueror was paid off on 21 February 1866.[1]
On 11 August 1876 she was renamed Warspite and became a training ship at Woolwich then Greenhithe. The ship was destroyed by fire in 1918, with 250 boys embarked at the time.[5] Three teenage boys later claimed to have started the fire deliberately.[6] They were charged for the alleged act and ordered to three years' detention at a reformatory.[5]
Notes
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- ↑ "Cwt" is the abbreviation for hundredweight, 56 cwt referring to the weight of the gun.
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