HMS Bristol (1861)
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Bristol |
| Namesake | Bristol |
| Ordered | 9 April 1856 |
| Builder | Woolwich Dockyard |
| Laid down | 16 September 1859 |
| Launched | 12 February 1861 |
| Completed | October 1865 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, July 1883 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Bristol-class frigate |
| Displacement | 4,020 long tons (4,080 t) |
| Tons burthen | 3,027 26⁄94 bm |
| Length | 250 ft (76.2 m) |
| Beam | 52 ft (15.8 m) |
| Draught | 18 ft 10 in (5.7 m) |
| Installed power | 4 boilers; 2,088 ihp (1,557 kW) |
| Propulsion | 1 shaft, 1 Steam engine |
| Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Complement | 550–600 |
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HMS Bristol was the name ship of her class of wooden screw frigates built for the Royal Navy during the 1860s.
Bristol was 250 feet (76.2 m) long between perpendiculars and 214 feet 7 inches (65.4 m) at the keel. She had a beam of 52 feet (15.8 m), a draught of 18 feet 10 inches (5.7 m) at deep load and a depth of hold of 18 feet 8 inches (5.7 m). The ship's tonnage was 3,027 26⁄94 tons burthen and Bristol displaced 4,023 long tons (4,088 t). The ship had a crew of 550 officers and ratings.[1]
She had a horizontal, two-cylinder, single-expansion steam engine, built by Robert Napier and Sons, that drove a single propeller shaft using steam that was provided by four boilers. The engine produced 2,088 indicated horsepower (1,557 kW) which gave the ship a maximum speed of 11.8 knots (21.9 km/h; 13.6 mph) under steam. To improve her sailing qualities, the propeller could be hoisted into the hull.[1]
Bristol was initially equipped with thirty ML eight-inch (203 mm) smoothbore muzzle-loading guns (SBML) of 65 hundredweight on her gundeck. These guns were designed specifically to fire the latest exploding shells, unlike the traditional solid cannonballs. On her upper deck were twenty 32-pounder SBML guns that weighed 56 hundredweight and a single 68-pounder SBML gun on a pivot mount. In January 1868, the ship was rearmed with 10 eight-inch shell guns and a dozen rifled, muzzle-loading 64-pounder guns on the gundeck. Four more 64-pounders were mounted on the upper deck.[2]
