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HMS Orion (1854)

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was reordered on 30 October 1852 to a new design, to incorporate a steam engine and a propeller. She was launched on 6 November 1854 and completed by 29 March 1855, with sea trials beginning on 24 February 1856 from
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on 1 February 1850. With the advent of steam propulsion in warship design,
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2-cyl. (70¾in diam., 3½ft stroke) horizontal single expansion trunk engine
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was ordered as an 80-gun second rate on 30 March 1848 and laid down at
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on 16 July 1857. She then sailed to the Mediterranean Sea in 1860.
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was commanded from her commissioning until late 1857 by Captain
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Upper deck: 4 x 8in (65cwt) guns + 24 x 32pdr (56cwt) guns
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Upper deck: 4 x 8in (65cwt) guns + 24 x 32pdr (56cwt) guns
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Victorian-era ships of the line of the United Kingdom
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Index

HMS Orion
Royal Navy Ensign
Chatham Dockyard
Hood-class
second rate
bm
gundeck
keel
8in (65cwt) guns
Quarterdeck
Forecastle
Hood-class
second rate
bm
gundeck
keel
8in (65cwt) guns
Quarterdeck
Forecastle
Hood-class
second rate
Royal Navy
Chatham Dockyard
Devonport

Cronstadt
Illustrated London News
John Elphinstone Erskine
Crimean War
Baltic Sea

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