HMS_Exmouth_(1854)
HMS Exmouth (1854)
Ship of the line of the Royal Navy
HMS Exmouth was a 91-gun screw propelled Albion-class second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy.
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| History | |
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| Name | HMS Exmouth |
| Ordered | 12 March 1840 |
| Builder |
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| Laid down | 13 September 1841 |
| Launched | 12 July 1854 |
| Commissioned | 15 March 1855 |
| Out of service | Lent to Metropolitan Asylums Board as a training ship in 1877 |
| Fate | Sold for breaking up on 4 April 1905 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Albion-class ship of the line |
| Displacement | 4,382 tons |
| Tons burthen | 3,083 tons |
| Length | 243 ft (74 m) (overall) |
| Beam | 60 ft 2.5 in (18.352 m) |
| Depth of hold | 23 ft 8 in (7.21 m) |
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| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement | 830 officers and men |
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Exmouth was ordered as a 90-gun sailing ship from Devonport Dockyard in 1841, but was ordered to be converted to operate under steam propulsion on 30 October 1852. The conversion began on 20 June 1853 and Exmouth was finally launched on 12 July 1854. She fitted out at Devonport Dockyard, finally being commissioned for service on 15 March 1855, having cost a total of £146,067, with £76,379 being spent on the hull as a sailing ship, and a further £24,620 spent on the machinery.
In 1855, during the later stages of the Crimean War, she served in the Baltic Sea as flagship of Sir Michael Seymour.[1] On 12 May 1857, Exmouth ran aground in Crewgreace bay, west of The Lizard, Cornwall. She was refloated. Her captain, Harry Ayres was convicted of negligence by a Court Martial and was admonished. Her master, Edward Fancourt Cavell was also convicted. He was sentenced to be reprimanded and admonished.[2] She was a guard ship at Devonport by 1859, when future admiral Robert Spencer Robinson was her captain between 1 February 1858 and May 1859. Exmouth was lent to the Metropolitan Asylums Board to serve as a training ship in 1877. According to a paper read at the Central Poor Law Conference in February 1904 these ships were recommended for boys supervised by the poor law authorities as an economic means of providing them with a career which also benefited the country.[3] She was sold to George Cohen on 4 April 1905 and then broken up at Penarth.
- Clowes 1901, p. 478.
- "The Stranding of Her Majesty's Ship Exmouth". The Times. No. 22688. London. 23 May 1857. col C, p. 12.
- "Training Ships". The Workhouse. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
- Clowes, William Laird (1901). The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times to the Present. Vol. VI. London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company.
- 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.
- 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.
- Lyon, David and Winfield, Rif, The Sail and Steam Navy List, All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815-1889, pub Chatham, 2004, ISBN 1-86176-032-9
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