Name HMS Chesapeake Displacement 1,610 tons Propulsion screw Length 72 m | Class and type Forte class Tons burthen 1,111 tons Launched 12 September 1855 Weight 1,636 tons | |
Fate Broken up, 1867, Charlton | ||
HMS Chesapeake was a Royal Navy screw-propelled 51-gun frigate launched in 1855, with a crew of 510 men. She saw action during the Second Opium War and there is a memorial to her losses at Southsea, near Portsmouth. She was the flagship of the British China Squadron in 1861.
Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fisher served in her in 1860.
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