HMS Frederick William

	As HMS Worcester
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Frederick William
Ordered	12 September 1833 (as Royal Sovereign); 29 June 1848 (as modified Queen class); 28 February 1857 (as screw battleship);
Builder	Portsmouth Dockyard
Laid down	1 July 1841
Launched	24 March 1860
Commissioned	1 July 1864
Renamed	Originally ordered as HMS Royal Sovereign; Renamed HMS Royal Frederick on 12 April 1839; Renamed HMS Frederick William on 28 January 1860; Renamed HMS Worcester on 19 October 1876;
Reclassified	Training ship in 1876
Fate	Foundered in River Thames on 30 August 1948; Raised and broken up in 1953;
General characteristics As completed
Class and type	86-gun screw propelled first rate
Displacement	4,502 tons
Tons burthen	3,241 bm
Length	214 ft (65 m) (gundeck); 174 ft 0.5 in (53.048 m) (keel);
Beam	60 ft (18 m)
Depth of hold	23 ft 9 in (7.24 m)
Propulsion	2-cylinder (66in diameter, 3½ft stroke) horizontal single expansion engine; Single screw; 500 nhp;
Speed	11.7 kn (13.5 mph) (under steam)
Complement	830
Armament	Lower deck: 30 x 8in (65cwt) guns; Upper deck: 32 x 32pdr (56cwt) guns; Quarterdeck/Forecastle: 22 x 32pdr (42cwt) guns + 2 x 68pdr (95cwt) guns;

HMS Frederick William was an 86-gun screw-propelled first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy.^[1]

She was initially ordered from Portsmouth Dockyard on 12 September 1833 as a 110-gun Queen-class ship of the line, under the name HMS Royal Sovereign. The order was suspended on 7 May 1834, but was later renewed, this time under the name HMS Royal Frederick, a change in name which took place on 12 April 1839. She was laid down on 1 July 1841, but work commenced slowly, and on 29 June 1848 she was re-ordered to a modification of the Queen-class design, still powered by sails alone. The order for the still unfinished ship was again modified on 28 February 1857, when it was ordered that she be completed as an 86-gun screw battleship. Conversion work began on 28 May 1859, and the ship was renamed HMS Frederick William on 28 January 1860, shortly before her launch on 24 March that year. She was completed in June 1860.

From 1 July to 31 December 1864, she served as a Coast Guard Service Home Station, at Portland, replacing HMS Colossus.^[1] On 19 October 1876 she was renamed as Worcester, to take on a new role as a training ship at Greenhithe for the Thames Nautical Training College.^[1] She fulfilled this role until her sale in July 1948. She foundered in the River Thames on 30 August 1948. She was raised in May 1953 and was broken up.^[1]

*Cutty Sark* and HMS *Worcester* as training ships.

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "HMS Frederick William". Retrieved 17 June 2012.
^ ^a ^b "Mid-Victorian RN vessel HMS Frederick William". Retrieved 18 June 2012.

Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.

External links[edit]

Media related to HMS Worcester (ship, 1864) at Wikimedia Commons

[pbenyon-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "HMS Frederick William". Retrieved 17 June 2012.

[pdavis-2] "Mid-Victorian RN vessel HMS Frederick William". Retrieved 18 June 2012.

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