HMS Lion (1847)

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Career (UK) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Lion
Builder: Pembroke Dockyard
Laid down: July 1840
Launched: 29 July 1847
Fate: Sold, 1905
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: Vanguard-class ship of the line
Tons burthen: 2580 bm
Length: 190 ft (58 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 56 ft 9 in (17.30 m)
Depth of hold: 22 ft 6 in (6.86 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament:

78 guns:

  • Gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades
  • Quarterdeck: 14 × 32 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 2 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades
  • Poop deck: 4 × 18 pdr carronades

HMS Lion was a two-deck 80-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 29 July 1847 at Pembroke Dockyard.[1]

She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1859, and was sold out of the navy in 1905.[1]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p191.

References

  • Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.