HMS Chesapeake (1855)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Chesapeake.

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Chesapeake
Builder	Chatham Dockyard
Launched	27 September 1855
Honours and awards	Participated in: Second Battle of Taku Forts (1859)
Fate	Broken up in Charlton, 1867
General characteristics
Class and type	Forte-class frigate
Displacement	1,610 tons
Tons burthen	1,111 tons
Length	235 ft (72 m)
Propulsion	screw
Complement	510
Armament	51 guns

Black-list men, mustering for water grog on HMS Chesapeake in 1858

HMS Chesapeake was a Royal Navy screw-propelled 51-gun frigate launched in 1855, with a crew of 510 men.[1]

Chesapeake Monument, Southsea, Portsmouth

She saw action during the Second Opium War and there is a memorial to her losses at Southsea, near Portsmouth.[2] She was the flagship of the British China Squadron in 1861.

Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fisher served in her in 1860.[3]

Notes

1. Mid-Victorian ships: Chesapeake
2. Chesapeake Memorial Archived 16 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
3. Mackay, Ruddock F. (1973), Fisher of Kilverstone, London: Oxford Clarendon Press, pp. 13–28

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.

External links

• Media related to HMS Chesapeake (ship, 1855) at Wikimedia Commons