Name HMS Furious Laid down June 1848 Construction started June 1848 Length 63 m | Ordered 25 April 1847 Commissioned 18 February 1853 Launched 26 August 1850 Builder HMNB Portsmouth | |
Out of service Became a coal hulk at Portsmouth, March 1867 Fate Sold for breaking up 1884 | ||
HMS Furious was a 16 gun steam powered paddle wheel frigate of the Royal Navy built at 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.
She became a coal hulk at Portsmouth in March 1867 and was sold for breaking up in 1884 to Castle, of Charlton.
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